Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Strive to Be an Excellent Leader and Manager. The research literature on leadership finds that the most effective leaders are excellent managers and excellent leaders. Leadership guru Peter Drucker said leadership is about determining the right results and management is about achieving results. ” -Peter Drucker.

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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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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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MAY 5, 2010

This post is part of a series called “Evidence-Based Management.” Scientific management (or Taylorism) is the first major theory of management. While he served as a foreman at Midvale Steele Company in 1875, Taylor was seeking a way for workers to increase their efficiency.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 24, 2011

Today’s piece is a guest post by Mike Figliuolo , the founder and Managing Director of thoughtLEADERS, LLC. But don’t worry – here are three rules of three to make your communications clearer, more compelling, and more efficient/effective. Chunk up the information into manageable bites. All good things come in threes.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 13, 2019

As part of a “readersourcing” project, we invited senior executives, managers, and HR/development professionals to rank order the eight topic areas (with descriptive sub-sections). Peter Drucker once said “nothing is so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” Nearly 500 people completed the survey.

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HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

The process of conducting a performance appraisal can be a daunting task for many managers and HR professionals. Providing effective performance feedback examples and performance appraisal comments can help managers provide constructive feedback that empowers employees to achieve their goals.

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Skip Prichard

MAY 11, 2020

If you don’t apply some classic, tried-and-true strategic management tools—like the ones he outlines at the end of The Strategy Book —then your strategy is, by default, “stay-the-course.” There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” – Peter Drucker. If you don’t do research?

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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

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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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 4, 2019

’ Peter Drucker called her ‘the mother of modern management.’ Mary Faulkner of IA-HR contributed Nobody Likes Performance Management. Rolling out big changes to your performance management? ’ Today’s world is ready for and needs her wisdom. Development. Quick question: Why?

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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.

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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. Leadership and Management. References.

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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. Why haven''t they responded more effectively?

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QAspire

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

… For Managers. If you try to adopt old “command and control” style of management to drive knowledge workers, they get even less productive. Facilitate and support, but don’t spoon feed and micro-manage. In knowledge world, productivity is hard to quantify. Don’t command, empower. Don’t control, but lead them instead.

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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. Then, as a manager, this same person could tell a few people what to do. Many organizations have historically operated on the “there is one best way” school of management.

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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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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 27, 2015

He is the current director of enterprise risk at SouthernSun asset management in Memphis, Tennessee. His book, The HEAD Game: High-Efficiency Analytic Decision Making and the Art of Solving Complex Problems Quickly, […].

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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

APRIL 24, 2011

One Page Talent Management: Eliminating Complexity, Adding Value Marc Effron and Miriam Ort Harvard Business Press (2010) A comprehensive analysis of “the most powerful, repeatable processes that create successful talent&# The claim by Marc Effron and Miriam Ort that they offer “the most powerful&# processes that create successful talent (..)

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

The advent of the modern organization and the practice of management constitutes a “social technology” that has been equally transformative. The forces of technology and management will continue to hold equal sway as the 21st century unfolds. This is a situation that cannot endure.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

During the last five years of my corporate management career, I had a great deal of leadership development. Along with many other executives, I attended talks by noted management authors, I went to (often lengthy) team-building exercises, and I participated in discussions on different leadership styles. ” — Peter Drucker.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

Breakthroughs can also result from innovations in management. Managers, of course, are among the great rule inventors and implementers of the world. What if managers changed their approaches and got that set of rules right? We are not the first to point out to economists that management makes a difference.

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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. Pulse Meme Feed What Is Your Brand Against?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. To be blunt, the concept of equality in the workplace has only made team building more difficult as employees seem to have a sense of undeserved entitlement with regard to their roles and responsibilities.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Drucker Forum 2018 This article is one in a series related to the 10th Global Peter Drucker Forum , with the theme “ Management. It is impossible to attend a management or technology conference these days without hearing some version of that call for more humanism in tech.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Benjamin Graham , the father of value investing, seldom met the managers of the companies he invested in because he felt they would tell him only what they wished him to hear and because he didn’t want to be influenced by impressions of personality. So is there something different about the managers who do succeed?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

An entrepreneurial society is one in which innovation and new business creation are, as Peter Drucker put it, “an integral, life-sustaining activity” across organizations and the economy. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. The act of job-switching also hurts personal and organizational performance.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

So how do people — and even dogs — routinely manage it? Managers under pressure to make many decisions can''t subject every one of them to thorough and dispassionate analysis. This is the kind of thinking that business managers can also profit from. But manage it, and you become the industry leader.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

The earliest business schools sought to provide the tools and teach the skills required to become a successful business person at the time, like bookkeeping, efficient manufacturing, and contract law. The scientific management emphasis on efficiency and profit at all costs can no longer take precedence over human values.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

In 1985, Peter Drucker made a hopeful case for an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and the creation of new businesses would more than compensate for job losses stemming from the retreat of manufacturing industries in the U.S. A second reason is that our assumptions about good management practices are out of date.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As Peter Drucker, the management guru, said, “Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.” Use technology to help you stay organized, improve efficiency, enhance communication, boost collaboration, and increase accuracy. Delegate nonessential tasks. Leverage technology.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 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. What made them such was not the efficiency of railways’ engineering or the success of one pricing strategy. Peter Drucker soon challenged those theories.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Rockefeller, and Thomas Edison — spawned huge companies that were designed around a model of scalable efficiency. If we are to thrive and harness the enormous potential of the Big Shift, we will all need to mobilize to create the entrepreneurial society, as Peter Drucker anticipated many decades ago. What is to be done?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 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. At a more macro level, the possibilities opened up by connected, more efficient production and new business models are also highly promising. trillion euros.

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