Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

Lewis himself echoes many people’s impression of how Peter Drucker defined the term — “assumptions about what a company gets paid for” — which is part of Drucker’s “theory of the business.” A good business model answers Peter Drucker’s age-old questions, ‘Who is the customer?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

As Drucker said, "the customer rarely buys what the business thinks it sells him;" look for a job-to-be-done, an important problem that is not adequately solved by current solutions. What is disruptive innovation? What is the best way to disrupt a market? How should I form and manage innovation teams?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

They have been displacers, not disrupters. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 8th Global Drucker Forum. They’ve simply undercut Western competitors by offering cheaper prices.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Ballmer, whose skills were in many ways complementary to Gates'', took the helm of an already massive organization as it entered an era of relentless disruptive innovation by competitors. He managed to hold the stock price on a pretty even keel, but no better than that.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

To quote Peter Drucker, “The purpose of an organization is to make ordinary people do extraordinary things.” China Disruptive innovation Global business' I hope that thanks to the platform we have created, every Haier employee will be able to do extraordinary things. For those operating in China, this is, indeed, a quandary.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

August 2002: HBR's special innovation issue hits the street, and my contrarian article about the fickle nature of corporate innovation sits sandwiched between stories by the likes of Peter Drucker, Henry Chesbrough, John Seely Brown, and Richard Florida. HBR's 90th Anniversary: Why Management Matters. More >>.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Their preferred strategy seems to be to acquire young companies that haven’t yet lost their own innovation mojo (but upon acquisition most likely will). Managers know how to command obedience and diligence, but most are clueless when it comes to galvanizing the sort of volunteerism that animates life on the social web.

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