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Coffee House Book Review – “The Drucker Lectures” by Peter F. Drucker

Tanveer Naseer

To start off this new series, I’d like to share my review of the book “The Drucker Lectures” which I received as a review copy courtesy of the publisher. Of course, having coined the term “knowledge worker”, many of the lectures featured in this book touch on the realities of today’s information age.

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How to Forecast the Environment for Success

Marshall Goldsmith

So, the question becomes: How can we forecast our environment so that we are aware of its influence over us and how we can use what we learn to our success? They are not only aware of the environment, they go out of their way to forecast it so that they can choose their plan of attack for that day. We create our environment.

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6 Key Elements of a Healthy Culture

Skip Prichard

Culture is the relational environment in which we work, and it’s how we work together. Culture is the relational environment in which we work, and it’s how we work together. We agree with the phrase attributed to Peter Drucker: “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” Culture: How People Behave and Interact.

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Leading From Within: Shifting Ego, Ceding Control, and Rising Empathy

Great Leadership By Dan

The enterprise environment is evolving and in order to succeed within it leaders’ styles are changing too. This attitude from leaders promotes an inclusive environment in which they themselves are integrated at the core and from where they lead. In the emerging “Future-of-Work” settings, it is employee egos that matter, not the CEO's.

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Key Performance Indicators of Good Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Dr. Greg Alston : “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.” - Peter Drucker This quote by one of the most respected management theorists of the last 100 years crystallizes the essence of how to determine whether someone is a good leader or not.

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Talk is Chief: Why Leaders Must Be Great Communicators

Skip Prichard

Of the highest importance is the ability for leaders to be heard and clearly understood in the complicated worlds in which they must lead or govern.The stakes in this new communication environment are high. Peter Drucker put simply, “Communications is less about information as it is about facilitating a kinship within the culture.”.

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How To Help Your Team To Stop Drowning In Work

Eric Jacobson

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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