Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

Note, for example, the spirited defense by Paul Polman of Unilever of his long-term, sustainable business philosophy in the wake of a takeover attempt. In it, he points to the growing threat posed by activist investors who push for short-term share-boosting tactics without regard for firms’ long-term viability.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

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 consistently characterized their peers as too short-term oriented to create truly disruptive change, and the country’s cumbersome state-owned enterprises as too slow.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Abraham Lincoln who only had one year of formal education credited his appetite for reading with his success. The greatest leaders throughout history have been nothing short of relentless in their pursuit of knowledge. Continuous education- one never stops learning- is the only way to lead effectively.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

These types of cuts are applauded as canny, even heroic, by stock markets — despite their damage to the longer-term value-creating capacity of the enterprise. Even worse, they downgrade the human being to a mere resource, no more privileged than others in the design of systems to produce short-term gains for shareholders.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Organizations still emphasize exploitation of existing advantages , driving a short-term orientation that many bemoan. By the early 1900’s, the term “management” was in wide use, and Adam Smith’s ideas came into their own. This was the rise of what Drucker famously dubbed “knowledge work.” Townes, and Henry L.

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Six Sigma Drucker P&L Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

Of course we know that constantly dialing down expenses and investments to boost short-term margins inevitably damages the long-term health of the company. This post introduces a series of perspectives leading up to the fifth annual Global Drucker Forum in November 2013 in Vienna, Austria.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Peter Drucker wrote : “One is responsible for one’s impacts, whether they are intended or not. Short of “owning” the problem, this still acknowledges that others associate the problem with you, and you are in a position to make a difference. Gorman added his voice to calls for the minimum wage to be raised in the U.S., Take Action.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

It constantly plows capital into its long-term operations — often at the expense of short-term financial results. Lafley and Roger Martin coined the term cumulative advantage to describe the distinct strategic benefit of not changing. “Knowledge, by definition, changes very fast,” Peter Drucker wrote.

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Short-term Drucker Resistance Restructuring 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2016

In 1985 Peter Drucker argued for a shift toward an entrepreneurial society, one where “executives in all institutions…make innovation and entrepreneurship a normal, ongoing everyday activity.” Thirty years on, how far have we progressed toward Drucker’s entrepreneurial society? There is a common theme here.

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