Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Hank is the highest level of business overview expert and is in that rarified circle of experts such as Peter Drucker, Tom Peters, Steven Covey, Peter Senge and W. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

Drucker 62

Drucker Strategic Planning Senge Newsletter 62

CO2

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Business organizations are not built for innovation; they are built for efficiency.&# – Vijay Govindarajan In The Other Side of Innovation the authors demonstrate their absolute knowledge of an area that many organizations need more of, innovation! There is just one little problem.

Innovation 74

Innovation Execution Executive Coaching Govindarajan 74

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post. I have found that highly productive executives and companies clearly understand the value, leverage, efficiency, and economies of scale that are generated by assembling highly focused, motivated, and productive teams.

Consensus 374

Consensus Team Building Blog Team 374

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

We believe the strength of any team is in the followers and there can be no leaders without followers, but the vast majority of research to date has focused on the leadership side of this equation. It is worth keeping in mind that some jobs have clear leadership requirements; virtually all jobs have followership requirements.

Executive Coaching 129

Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Shifting from Drucker's erudition and measured tone to Hammer's revolutionary and provocatively violent declarations ("don't automate, obliterate") was a bit dizzying. I list these below as a guide for anyone — from bloggers, to academics, to strategy consultants — looking to produce world-class thought leadership.

Prahalad 15

Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

In the past, the effects of technological change were very much shaped by business leaders’ embrace of scientific management with its emphasis on efficient uniformity, and by simplifying assumptions about the behavior of economic man and the efficiency of bureaucratic organizations.

Management 8

Management Drucker EPS Short-term 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

Learning-by-Doing 62

Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

I was there for a gathering of Human Resources executives, the third conference I have attended this autumn in which a central theme was the “technological revolution” and its implications for employment, education, and lifestyles. Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. It was something you did.

Technology 8

Technology Drucker Taylorism Taylor 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

Noting the difference between empowering and sustaining innovations , he shows how a pressure for short-term payoffs will always drive investment toward the latter, which tend to increase the efficiency of current operations. Economy Leadership' In the practice of management, most of the low-hanging fruit remains to be plucked.

Management 10

Management Drucker Short-term Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

We hear similar ideas in Peter Drucker’s bestseller, The Age of Discontinuity , where he argues that all sectors of society are “affected with the public interest” but must operate in symbiosis, like an orchestra—each playing its own part in collaboration with other institutions.

Company 10

Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

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. If work is learning and learning is the work, then leadership should be all about enabling learning. Something further down the road had to be attracting their attention.

Drucker 8

Drucker Learning-by-Doing Competitive Advantage Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Prior to the industrial revolution, of course, there wasn’t much “management” at all – meaning, anyone other than the owner of an enterprise handling tasks such as coordination, planning, controlling, rewarding, and resource allocation. This was the rise of what Drucker famously dubbed “knowledge work.” Townes, and Henry L.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Drucker P&L Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

Although it has no natural resources, Singapore has succeeded by investing large portions of its public budget in education, a strong civil service, and the development of great leaders, proactively moving its economy away from basic manufacturing, to higher value, technology-based manufacturing, then to knowledge-based R&D sectors.

GDP 8

GDP Porter Education Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

Consider Howard Stevenson’s definition of entrepreneurship: “the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled.” Public entrepreneurs build something from nothing with resources — be they financial capital or human talent or new rules — they didn’t command. Public entrepreneurs face the same predicament.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Osgood Storytelling Osborne 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Trends that are affecting fundamental concepts of business, and in turn IT: The basic ideas of capitalism--return on investment (ROI) and return on assets (ROA)--are being challenged by the historical stalwarts of capitalism ( Harvard , Drucker Society , Forbes , the London School of Economics and many more). IT management ROA ROI'

CIO 8

CIO ROI Agility Information Technology 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

With the plethora of reading material on the market today it is not a simple thing to make sure that you’re covering all the bases in a time efficient fashion. It includes books by Peter Drucker, Charles Handy, Charles Koch, Jack Welch, and Bob Sutton. Did you know that the average American only reads one book a year?

Blog 419

Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 1, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar Eric Jacobson On Management And Leadership Welcome! But, following through is critical to keeping your team effective and efficient. 15 Inspiring Biographies For Leaders 20 New Words Every Leader Should Know Reach Communications & Leadership Expert David Gro.

Mentor 56

Mentor Mission Statement Tips Learning-by-Doing 56

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar Eric Jacobson On Management And Leadership Welcome! Was the call handled efficiently without being abrupt? 15 Inspiring Biographies For Leaders 20 New Words Every Leader Should Know Reach Communications & Leadership Expert David Gro. Did the employee use an appropriate greeting?

How To 50

How To Mentor Mission Statement Tips 50

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 28, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar Eric Jacobson On Management And Leadership Welcome! Lighting : Use more efficient lighting systems, such as those with motion sensors, particularly in your office bathrooms. 15 Inspiring Biographies For Leaders 20 New Words Every Leader Should Know Reach Communications & Leadership Expert David Gro.

How To 50

How To Mentor Mission Statement Tips 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2014

More often it simply means deciding to move some initiatives to the back burner in order to concentrate the bulk of your resources in a single key area. As Peter Drucker famously said: “There is nothing quite so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” Leadership Strategic planning Strategy'

Strategic Planning 13

Strategic Planning Planning Porter Project 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Already, in his 1962 book Capitalism and Freedom Friedman had declared that “there is one and only one social responsibility of business–to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.”

Supply Chain 12

Supply Chain Bureaucracy Short-term Agility 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Deep change, when it happens, is belated and convulsive, and typically requires an overhaul of the leadership team. Despite their resource advantages, incumbents are seldom the authors of game-changing innovation. This post is part of a series leading up to the 2014 Global Drucker Forum , taking place November 13-14 in Vienna, Austria.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Business Incubator Incubator Innovation 8