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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Frances Hesselbein – Former CEO, Girl Scouts of America and Peter Drucker Foundation. Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Stew Friedman – Practice Professor of Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. World authority on project management. Non-profit CEOs.

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What Economists Know That Managers Don’t (and Vice Versa)

Harvard Business Review

But what many economists generally gloss over is a notion that I will argue is highly complementary to market failures: management failures. Businesses and management experts, in contrast, tend take the opposite position. This is a reminder that serious students of market performance take market failures seriously.

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What Economists Know That Managers Don’t (and Vice Versa)

Harvard Business Review

But what many economists generally gloss over is a notion that I will argue is highly complementary to market failures: management failures. Businesses and management experts, in contrast, tend take the opposite position. This is a reminder that serious students of market performance take market failures seriously.

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Digital Transformation Doesn’t Have to Leave Employees Behind

Harvard Business Review

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. These include administrative or middle management functions, which have historically provided jobs for the middle class.

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Companies Collect Competitive Intelligence, but Don’t Use It

Harvard Business Review

In my work in competitive intelligence I have met many managers and executives who made major decisions involving billions of dollars of commitments with only scant attention to the likely reaction of competitors, the effect of potential disruptors, new approaches offered by startups and the impact of long-term industry trends.

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The Cure for Self-Inflicted Complexity

Harvard Business Review

Inter-domain complexity challenges us whenever a hospital patient has co-morbidities (heart and liver problems for example), or a business problem spans marketing and finance, or a political problem bridges foreign relations and domestic economics. Among them will be a common sense that complexity is dropping, not rising.

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How Companies, Governments, and Nonprofits Can Create Social Change Together

Harvard Business Review

In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. ” When we talk with corporate executives around the country, they almost always ask the same question: Can managers and CEOs really accomplish their business goals while also advancing society’s goals?

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