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“Leadership is Marketing” – Peter Drucker Said What?

Tanveer Naseer

Drucker was a genius. Drucker didn’t even care to emulate Albert Einstein and imagine himself on the business end of a beam of light. Drucker’s Contributions You can’t talk about Drucker’s spectacular success as a management guru and fortune teller without noting that his first big public prediction was a bust.

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Six social-media skills every leader needs

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is a brief excerpt from an article co-authored by Roland Deiser and Sylvain Newton for The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company, in which they explain how and why organizational social-media literacy is fast becoming a source of competitive advantage.

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Sam Ford: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

His 2013 New York University Press book, Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture, was co-authored by Henry Jenkins and Joshua Green. Sam Ford is Director of Audience Engagement for Peppercomm. The book was named one of the best business books of 2013 by Booz & Co.’s

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Nick Gogerty: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

He lectures in Columbia University’s MBA value investing program on innovation, macro-economic portfolio, and scenario risk management. Meanwhile, […].

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Michael Schrage: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Michael Schrage is a Research Fellow at the MIT Center for Digital Business and a Visiting Fellow at Imperial College’s Department of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He examines the various roles of models, prototypes, and simulations as collaborative media for innovation risk management.

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When Are You Too Innovative?

CO2

Too Much Innovation? Too Much Innovation? I have the privilege recently to work with a technology company that has one of their three core values as innovative. Are we too innovative? And at times it costs us money chasing down innovation at a cost of operational excellence.

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When Are You Too Innovative?

CO2

Too Much Innovation? Too Much Innovation? I have the privilege recently to work with a technology company that has one of their three core values as innovative. Are we too innovative? And at times it costs us money chasing down innovation at a cost of operational excellence.