HR Digest

OCTOBER 11, 2019

As Peter Drucker famously said, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” A culture if winning can improve key performance metrics of the organization, such as: innovation, strengths, diversity and inclusion, high performance, and safety. In today’s world, organizations with a strong culture of winning are known to win talent wars.

Metrics 81

Metrics Absenteeism Brand Drucker 81

Lead Change Blog

JUNE 4, 2019

Jesse explains: “According to Warren Bennis, ‘Just about everything written today about leadership and organizations comes from Mary Parker Follett’s writings and lectures.’ ’ Peter Drucker called her ‘the mother of modern management.’ And are you really making the process better?

Leadership Development 205

Leadership Development Development Leadership Follow-up 205

Marshall Goldsmith

APRIL 5, 2011

They worry over what the organization and their superiors ‘owe’ them and should do for them. Peter Drucker Peter Drucker has written extensively about the impact of the knowledge worker in modern organizations. A key part of the influence process involves the education of decision makers.

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Influence Drucker Guidelines Ethics 139

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

Writing for the Harvard Business Review in 1988, Peter Drucker predicted that in 20 years the average organization would have slashed the number of management layers by half and shrunk its managerial ranks by two-thirds. Today, more Americans are working in large, bureaucratic organizations than ever before. In 1993, 47% of U.S.

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Bureaucracy Organization Health Care Drucker 9

CO2

AUGUST 14, 2010

What is equally amazing is that is where much of the stuff is made too (so if their is pollution or a stretch in ethics of how something is made we might be able to turn a blind eye)! What is one thing your organization could do in you’re place in the world of things? If you are in the business of making or selling things.

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Freedman Executive Coaching Strategic Planning Taylorism 87

LDRLB

MARCH 10, 2014

What is it that makes this process of jumping from individual contributor to first-time leader so difficult? DAVID: I think that’s the great point and also, last podcast we were talking to William Cohen and he actually mentioned that a lot of times … he studied under Peter Drucker. Drucker’s right and you’re right.

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Drucker Books Learning-by-Doing Leadership 74

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Leaders used to have all the power in these hierarchical relationships, but this is no longer the reality facing many organizations. Traveling down the path set by the service academies, it may well be that the most effective people in any organization are those who are equally adept playing both leadership and followership roles.

Executive Coaching 129

Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2011

Effective executives, as Peter Drucker noted, want to get ahead of potential problems. If determining whether your employees are losing their ability to effectively process ideas and information costs next to nothing , aren't you ethically obligated to find that out? My bet is, no.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Ethics Human Capital Drucker 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

He carries the intriguing title of Professor of the Philosophy and Ethics of information at the University of Oxford implying that the revolution is as much about issues of morality, identity and meaning as it is about technology. The algorithmic organization, too, is already here, at least in part.

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Drucker Technology Efficiency Software 8

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. During difficult economic times, organizations often seek ideas on how to cut costs or perform operations more efficiently. How Ethical Are You? More >>.

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

But whatever happens with investigation, there are a couple of lessons we can all take away if we are trying to create behavior change in our own organizations. They must be supported by incentives, different processes, training, and often changes in how adjacent activities are carried out (as tools rarely sit in isolation).

Metrics 12

Metrics Education Software Tools 12

Strategy Driven

MARCH 7, 2014

Have you celebrated organizations that succeeded? Any company or organization is like a tree. Ethics and integrity. Business Hall of Fame that I met Peter Drucker. At the banquet, the swell of pride from the winning organizations was heartening to see. Are you a legend? Do you admire people who went the distance?

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Balanced Scorecard Budgeting Risk Management Learning-by-Doing 73