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“Leadership is Marketing” – Peter Drucker Said What?

Tanveer Naseer

Drucker was a genius. Drucker didn’t even care to emulate Albert Einstein and imagine himself on the business end of a beam of light. Drucker’s Contributions You can’t talk about Drucker’s spectacular success as a management guru and fortune teller without noting that his first big public prediction was a bust.

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How Drucker Thought About Complexity

Harvard Business Review

Throughout his life, Peter Drucker strived to understand the increasing complexity of business and society and, most importantly, the implications for how we can continue to create and deliver value in the face of complexity. I have long been influenced by Drucker''s work. It is up to us to pick up where he left off.

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Socially Responsible Business Can Only Succeed If It Becomes a Movement

Harvard Business Review

And social movements aren’t only the domain of community organizers and college students. From the Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism to the Conscious Capitalism organization, groups are forming with a mission (in the words of the latter) to “inspire, educate and empower companies to elevate humanity through business.”

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Making Management as Simple as Frisbee

Harvard Business Review

Or take Salesforce.com and its willingness to have self-organizing development teams continuously tweaking code, even though, with a global system serving more than two million subscribers, the risks of introducing errors into its 30 million lines of code would seem to present compelling reasons not to. Keep your gaze on the customers.

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To Understand the Future of Tesla, Look to the History of GM

Harvard Business Review

Peter Drucker wrote that Sloan was “the first to work out how to systematically organize a big company. When Sloan became president of GM in 1923, he put in place planning and strategy, measurements, and most importantly, the principles of decentralization.”

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An Entrepreneurial Society Needs an Entrepreneurial State

Harvard Business Review

Innovation-led growth can square a circle that is challenging modern capitalism: how to generate sustained and sustainable economic growth, built on high-value, well-paying jobs. The reason for this elusiveness lies in widespread misunderstandings about how innovation-led growth has been achieved in the past.