Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Every few hundred years throughout Western history, a sharp transformation has occurred,” Peter Drucker observed in a 1992 e ssay for Harvard Business Review. “In For Drucker, the newest new world was marked, above all, by one dominant factor: “the shift to a knowledge society.”. It’s no wonder why.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Short-term thinking has been charged with no less than a chronic decline in innovation capability by Clayton Christensen who termed it “the Capitalist’s Dilemma.” ) Corporations continue to focus too narrowly on shareholders , with terrible consequences – even at great companies like IBM. For more information, see the conference homepage.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

One of the most sacred texts in the business world is Peter Drucker’s classic, The Practice of Management , which introduced the concept of “ management by objectives ” (MBO). ” Most modern managers take this as a given. Of course, reprogramming people and organizations is no easy feat.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

My favorite Peter Drucker misquotation is, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” ” Drucker wrote a great deal about how managers should measure performance, but this particular phrase didn’t come from his pen.

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