Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 19, 2023

In Nick Sonnenberg’s new book, Come Up For Air , (available February 7, 2023), you’ll learn about his CPR Business Efficiency Framework , which stands for: C ommunication P lanning R esources This framework focuses on eliminating the pain points most teams experience by optimizing these three operation areas foundational to every organization. “In

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 28, 2012

The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses Eric Ries Crown Business (2011) “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.”

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Career Advancement

JULY 3, 2017

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all. Peter Drucker ~. Kevin had been hired to turn the company around. He arrived to find a sluggish, apathetic staff. Most were warry of the change and unwilling to stick their neck out for anything.

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QAspire

AUGUST 16, 2021

When jobs are simplified (and standardized) for efficient outputs, they become uninteresting, monotonous and devoid of new learning that most people yearn for. We have touched upon the topic of how to build self-awareness and here are a few posts and sketchnotes that can help: Leading the Self in Tough Times: Drucker Revisited.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 31, 2013

Getting Innovation Right: How Leaders Leverage Inflection Points to Drive Success Seth Kahan Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2013) “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.”

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 25, 2013

He studies how organizations build capabilities of leadership, speed, learning, accountability, and talent through leveraging human resources. He has helped generate award winning […].

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QAspire

AUGUST 16, 2021

When jobs are simplified (and standardized) for efficient outputs, they become uninteresting, monotonous and devoid of new learning that most people yearn for. They may either be too busy, too scared or simply lack the self-awareness.

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Nathan Magnuson

AUGUST 6, 2018

Peter Drucker famously said, “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” Finally, after a few less than stellar experiences, they begin to drag their feet when new opportunities present themselves. A healthy stop doing list can break this cycle.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 13, 2019

Peter Drucker once said “nothing is so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” Our delightful grandkids (it’s not fair that we have the cutest and smartest grandkids the world has ever seen) also provide many wonderful distractions. Would you like to be a Reader Leader?

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

Technology has clearly paid a huge part in this, but the biggest driver of change in how organizations are run is the ceaseless quest for improvement; to manage more efficiently and effectively to better achieve business results. Think of Peter Drucker who topped the first Thinkers50 ranking in 2001.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 24, 2011

But don’t worry – here are three rules of three to make your communications clearer, more compelling, and more efficient/effective. It’s faster, more efficient, and less frustrating. Coffee House Book Review – “The Drucker Lectures&# by Peter F. Emails are “text bombs” with no rhyme or reason. The Bottom Line. Threes work.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 28, 2011

In 1963, Peter Drucker observed that “there is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.&# Those familiar with my book reviews, interviews, and commentaries already know that I have several favorite quotations that I use whenever appropriate. Here are two.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 11, 2013

Bob''s blog entries "There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all" Albert Einstein “Be yourself. She graduated from the world’s leading coach training organization, was one of the inaugural students in its affiliated Corporate Coaching program, is a teacher for [.].

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Leadership guru Peter Drucker said leadership is about determining the right results and management is about achieving results. A large study of working professionals revealed that value is equal to benefits to others times quality times efficiency.7 ” -Peter Drucker. Strive to Be an Excellent Leader and Manager.

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Skip Prichard

MAY 11, 2020

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” – Peter Drucker. “Being a great leader is about taking someone to a better place, including yourself.” – Dr. Max McKeown. Photo Credit: Mark Fletcher-Brown.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 5, 2022

The deluge of easy money into the sector has prompted many would-be entrepreneurs to take their eye off the ball, and whereas Peter Drucker famously said that the only real purpose of a business is to create a customer, the current entrepreneurial landscape allows founders to get rich without worrying too much about that.

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Jason Womack

DECEMBER 20, 2015

Peter Drucker once said, “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” But how do you help someone prepare for a future that’s being invented for them? Leaders like you mentor others to make it easier for.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 4, 2012

HBR Guide to Getting the Right Work Done Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2012) “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.” Peter Drucker This is one of the first volumes in a new series of anthologies of articles previously published in Harvard [.].

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Every few hundred years throughout Western history, a sharp transformation has occurred,” Peter Drucker observed in a 1992 e ssay for Harvard Business Review. “In For Drucker, the newest new world was marked, above all, by one dominant factor: “the shift to a knowledge society.”. It’s no wonder why.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” – Peter Drucker. Process Improvement Self Growth Effectiveness Efficiency Lean Simplicity Subtraction Zen' This applies in almost every aspect of business and life.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 11, 2019

As Peter Drucker famously said, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” Increased effectiveness, efficiency, and productivity. When you build a winning culture, your employees become more efficient and happy in the work they do. There are many benefits of a culture of learning in an organization. 1 driver of workplace engagement.

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HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

Well, for starters, it directly impacts productivity and efficiency. Including time management as a performance indicator in employee evaluations not only promotes efficient use of time but also fosters a culture of accountability and responsibility. Uses time efficiently to maximize productivity and minimize wasted time.

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Steve Farber

JUNE 10, 2013

If you’re serious about leading teams, you need to consider the technology you’re using to help you foster that connection efficiently. And if you’re thinking that email is the easiest, most efficient conduit for communication, think again. The good news is, we now have the tools to create that closeness, even from a distance.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 15, 2012

Traditional management structures, systems and tools intended to make the first factories efficient are now obsolete. Peter Drucker saw this first; "as we advance deeper into the knowledge economy, the basic assumptions underlying much of what is taught and practiced in the name of management are hopelessly out of date.As

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

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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Deming Institute

JUNE 30, 2020

Ackoff provides the following insight about leaders doing the “right and wrong” things in the systems they lead: Peter Drucker said “There’s a difference between doing things right and doing the right thing.” Doing things right is efficiency. Effectiveness/Efficiency Matrix. Doing the right thing is wisdom, and effectiveness.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 19, 2012

Davenport and Brook Manville Harvard Business Review Press (2012) How and why to take full and systematic advantage of technology and analytics to create deeper and more sustainable judgment To introduce this review, I call upon Peter Drucker: “There is [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 19, 2012

Davenport and Brook Manville Harvard Business Review Press (2012) How and why to take full and systematic advantage of technology and analytics to create deeper and more sustainable judgment To introduce this review, I call upon Peter Drucker: “There is [.].

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LDRLB

MAY 5, 2010

While he served as a foreman at Midvale Steele Company in 1875, Taylor was seeking a way for workers to increase their efficiency. Taylor would break the actions of a worker into a series of movements and then, using a stopwatch, time the most efficient worker going through the motions.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Our industrial society embraces scalable efficiency. Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 4, 2019

’ Peter Drucker called her ‘the mother of modern management.’ Jesse explains: “According to Warren Bennis, ‘Just about everything written today about leadership and organizations comes from Mary Parker Follett’s writings and lectures.’ ’ Today’s world is ready for and needs her wisdom.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Follow-up 205

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

It is generally accepted that efficiency represents the optimal, aspirational state for any market. Efficient markets, which feature many buyers and sellers and perfect information flowing between them, determine the “right price” and hence allocate society’s resources optimally. Those are indeed positive features.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 19, 2013

In a talk to the Drucker Foundation Advisory Board in 1993, Peter Drucker said, “The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. The effective leader of the future will consistently and efficiently ask, learn, follow up, and grow. The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask.”

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QAspire

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

In his book “Managing For The Future (1992)”, Peter Drucker said that raising productivity of knowledge and service workers must be an economic and social priority in twenty first century. Seek training, read blogs (better yet, write one), read at least one book in your area of work in a month, meet people, attend conferences/webinars.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 27, 2015

His book, The HEAD Game: High-Efficiency Analytic Decision Making and the Art of Solving Complex Problems Quickly, […]. Philip Mudd, the ex-deputy director of the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center and FBI’s National Security Branch, appears regularly on Fox News, CNN, and NPR.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. and oh, if you want a pic to show with your comment, go get a gravatar !

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 20, 2011

to reach a higher level of productivity, efficiency, profitability) and other situations in which [.].

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