Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Lou Gerstner’s arrival at IBM in 1993 is a classic example of leadership through a liminal period. What has been most amazing to me is that, in a time of such rapid change, employee engagement at TELUS also rose dramatically (from 53 percent to 83 percent) – clearly bucking the generally negative trend.

Leadership 8

Leadership Telecommunications Education Consensus 8

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

We incorporate Peter Drucker, who was my professor when I got my doctorate and a good friend afterward for many, many years until he passed away some years ago. DAVID: I absolutely love … I should add you’re the author of this new book “The Practical Drucker.” He was very practical.

Drucker 74

Drucker Class Armstrong Books 74

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

Consider the global trends cited by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee in a recent interview with HBR. Learn from the countries that are bucking the trend. Professions-based education – that which ensures future employability for students – has also been a key area for investment and innovation in the country.

GDP 8

GDP Porter Education Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Increasingly, the CIO and IT must be seen less as developing and deploying technology, and more as a source of innovation and transformation that delivers business value, leveraging technology instead of directly delivering it. In order to understand the future of enterprise IT, the evolving future of business itself must be considered.

CIO 8

CIO ROI Agility Information Technology 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

However being aware of industry trends, competitive positioning, who the thought leaders are, etc. It includes books by Peter Drucker, Charles Handy, Charles Koch, Jack Welch, and Bob Sutton. When I teach MBA leadership courses I require all papers – on any leadership issues – to address key problems from opposing views.

Blog 419

Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 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. Less than one in 10 firms said they “innovate in an agile way.” In this case, management could easily misapply resources. How to start?

Management 8

Management Drucker Survey Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

As “better, cheaper, faster, smaller, more convenient, and more personalized” became the new norm, the ability to innovate with committed employees and agile processes became critical. They constitute a coherent constellation of leadership and management practices, as described by more than a score of books.

Supply Chain 12

Supply Chain Bureaucracy Short-term Agility 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Category growth and decline trends don’t shift on a dime and can take decades to play themselves out. Similarly, categories decline when categories hit their peak and are replaced by better, more innovative categories. These are the questions that their leadership and board just be wrestling with. It’s unclear.

Strategy 11

Strategy Mass Marketing Business Model Brand 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

In innovation circles, empowerment is now a familiar theme; project teams working highly autonomously have been behind many of the world’s most innovative offerings. This, I believe, is why creating innovation platforms is so valuable. Yet it also matters to these businesses to keep launching innovative new offerings.

Innovation 8

Innovation Strategy Drucker Project 8