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Digital Transformation Doesn’t Have to Leave Employees Behind

Harvard Business Review

But digitization is more than just a change of tools. 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. Becoming a true digital organization is not just about becoming tech-savvy.

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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. If we train enough of them, I think we’ll see many positive changes in the years to come.

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Lessons from the Three Cups of Tea Controversy

Harvard Business Review

Tools are necessary but not sufficient for behavior change. Simply providing tools (e.g. Tools by themselves rarely create sustained change that matches to the goals. If a tool supports or improves current behaviors then it will be readily adopted. The schools are (mostly) being built, why are they often not being used?

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Your Calendar Needs an Upgrade

Harvard Business Review

“Until we can manage time,” Peter Drucker declared in The Effective Executive , “we can manage nothing else.” But virtually everything about its tools and technologies is in flux. Wrote one: ‘I no longer feel guilty.’” ’” That’s liberating.

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

Harvard Business Review

Partly because profit maximization is a bedrock assumption and partly because maximization is a basic mathematical tool, economists have trouble dealing with firms that are not maximizing profits. This post is part of a series leading up to the 2014 Global Drucker Forum , taking place November 13-14 in Vienna, Austria.

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

Harvard Business Review

Partly because profit maximization is a bedrock assumption and partly because maximization is a basic mathematical tool, economists have trouble dealing with firms that are not maximizing profits. This post is part of a series leading up to the 2014 Global Drucker Forum , taking place November 13-14 in Vienna, Austria.

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

Harvard Business Review

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.

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