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35 Leadership Quotes from the 10th Global Peter Drucker Forum

Leading Blog

T HE 10th annual Global Peter Drucker Forum was held in November 2018 in Drucker's home town of Vienna, Austria. Leadership is a distributed capability throughout the organization. You don’t get innovation without diversity and conflict. This year’s theme was Management: The Human Dimension. That make life worth living.

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3 Practices CEOs Can Learn from the Girl Scouts

Michael Lee Stallard

In 1976 she became CEO of the national organization, Girl Scouts of the USA. With membership falling, and the organization in a state of serious decline, Mrs. Hesselbein put sound management practices in place. It creates a marketplace of ideas so that people are more likely to spot new opportunities to improve the organization.

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A Guide For How To Dream Big And Win In Business

Eric Jacobson

Today, Elting is the Founder and CEO of The Elizabeth Elting Foundation, which creates scholarship opportunities for entrepreneurial young women, funds exciting women-led startups and social businesses, and supports women-led organizations that foster women’s success through educational programs, mentorships, community building and more.

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“All Together Now” with Peter Drucker

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is another thought-provoking article featured by the the Drucker Exchange (the Dx), a website that “hosts an ongoing conversation about bettering society through effective management and responsible leadership.

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How To Create A More Inclusive Workplace

Eric Jacobson

The second part of the book offers simple and very specific everyday practices that enable us—as individuals, in our organizations, on our teams—to create cultures of belonging. Helgesen defines a culture of belonging is one in which the largest possible percentage of people: Feel ownership in the organization, viewing it as “we,” and “they.”

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Frances Hesselbein: To Serve is To Live

Leading Blog

In 1998 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her exemplary leadership as CEO of Girl Scouts of the USA, her role as the founding president of the Drucker Foundation, and her service as “a pioneer for women volunteerism, diversity, and opportunity.” I am the heart of the organization!”

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How Innovative Trailblazers are Transforming Business

Skip Prichard

What characteristics do the most innovative organizations share? The key route to doing so is to seek inspiration from both inside and outside the organization, combine relevant ideas and concepts, and then work your way forward to solving the problem. So…think like Peter Drucker. ‘Be ” -Sean Pillot de Chencey.