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New Year Entertainment: Predictions, Forecasts, and Projections

The Practical Leader

Seers, prophets, and fortune-tellers of all sorts have responded to — and preyed upon — the primal desire we have to reduce the uncertainty of what lies ahead. We see how Peter Drucker’s thought leadership continues to guide leaders and organizations. ” As of 2014, 390 million units were sold.

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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

It is useful to distinction between three motivations for creating partnerships: Optimization and economy of scale, Reduction of risk and uncertainty, Acquisition of particular resources and activities) Cost Structure – The business model elements result in the cost structure. (It

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We Need to Expand Our Definition of Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

If we are to thrive and harness the enormous potential of the Big Shift, we will all need to mobilize to create the entrepreneurial society, as Peter Drucker anticipated many decades ago. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. But risk also increases because of accelerating change and increasing uncertainty.

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3 Traps That Block Corporate Transformation

Harvard Business Review

Digital-first companies, such as Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Twitter, are amassing market share and capitalization, but only a few brick-and-mortar corporations (think Apple, Nissan, and HCL Technologies) have been able to change fast enough to catch up with their rivals. The Leadership Trap.

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3 Traps That Block Corporate Transformation

Harvard Business Review

Digital-first companies, such as Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Twitter, are amassing market share and capitalization, but only a few brick-and-mortar corporations (think Apple, Nissan, and HCL Technologies) have been able to change fast enough to catch up with their rivals. The Leadership Trap.

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Leading in Complex Times

Harvard Business Review

It seems to me that this emphasis on authenticity is an important counterbalance to earlier assumptions that people gained leadership powers by dint of titles or positions in hierarchies. So yes, be authentic – but don’t break the mold so completely that others need to spend energy figuring out how to engage with your leadership.

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In 2014, Resolve to Make Your Business Human Again

Harvard Business Review

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” Peter Drucker famously said that the point of a business was to create a customer. Innovation Leadership Strategy' No, it’s to maximize shareholder value. And short-term numbers at that.

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