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Time to Lead: What We Can Learn from Great Leaders

Leading Blog

Peter Drucker was asked whether he considered himself more of a historical writer or a management thinker: “More a historical writer,” Drucker answered. Developed from Isaiah Berlin’s expose of the Greek poet Archilochus statement that “the fox knows many smaller things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.”

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Culture Eats Strategy for Lunch & Dinner!

Great Leadership By Dan

Our book, “ A Culture Of Discipline:The Art, Discipline, and Practice of Breakthrough Leadership” is the outcome of ten years of practice and experimentation on two key theories developed by two world renowned researchers: Peter Drucker and Igor Ansoff. Igor Ansoff is known as the father of strategic management.

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Being a Self-Aware Leader: Tasha Eurich

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Because only when you operate from strengths can you achieve true excellence.” – Peter Drucker, Managing Oneself. In a world where people are so busy responding to external expectations and go with the flow, it takes courage to peep within, develop insight about self, build outsight and find ways to do a more meaningful contribution.

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Thoughts on the Presidency

Leading Blog

The President is, first of all, a manager.” — Peter Drucker, How to Make the Presidency Manageable, Fortune November 1974. You have to have a team and operate as a team, and any corporation would have a training program to acculturate people. .” — Elizabeth Drew, The New Yorker , Running, November 23, 1975. Newt Gingrich, 2011.

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8 Essential Principles of Effective Leadership

Leading Blog

Gayle Beebe has written a book on how effective and moral leaders develop and more importantly, how they must continue to develop. In our instant-oriented culture we often want to short-circuit the thinking, reflecting and acting that mar our progressive development as leaders. Leadership development is a process.

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Peter Skarzynski and David Crosswhite: An interview by Bob Morris, Part Two

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Special Operations Command UChicago University of Chicago USSOC Voltaire Western Union The Wall Street Journal Whirlpool Corporation' Bob''s blog entries Albert Einstein Apple Berkeley Booth School of Business Brilliant Mistakes Brooke Manville C.K.

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The Senior Leader’s Checklist for Shaping Company Culture

Next Level Blog

There’s a reason the late, great Peter Drucker said, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” The authors argued that companies had to pick between one of three paths to value creation and success in the market – operational excellence, customer intimacy or product leadership. Culture needs constant attention.

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