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Peter Skarzynski and David Crosswhite: An interview by Bob Morris, Part Two

First Friday Book Synopsis

Peter Skarzynski is a founder and Managing Partner of ITC Business Group, LLC. Special Operations Command UChicago University of Chicago USSOC Voltaire Western Union The Wall Street Journal Whirlpool Corporation' Bob''s blog entries Albert Einstein Apple Berkeley Booth School of Business Brilliant Mistakes Brooke Manville C.K.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Frances Hesselbein – Former CEO, Girl Scouts of America and Peter Drucker Foundation. CEO Magazine – CEO of the Year. Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Stew Friedman – Practice Professor of Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Non-profit CEOs.

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Meet My Next Group of Coaches!

Marshall Goldsmith

Whitney Johnson – Thinkers 50 award-winning Management Thinker 2015-17, Disruptive Innovation expert, author Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. Magazine top 15 designers in the world, author of Design the Life You Love: A Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Meaningful Future.

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Competing on Service: Eleven Ways to Beat the Competition by ‘Hugging’ Your Customers

Strategy Driven

Forced to do more with much less, the small businesses that have managed to survive and even thrive during these tough times have recognized one important factor: You can’t always compete on price, but you can compete on service. As the late business guru Peter Drucker said: The sole purpose of business is to serve customers.

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Breaking the Command-and-Control Reflex

Harvard Business Review

But Brennan opened the door on some current management difficulties at the $3 billion information management company he runs. But he believes that too many of his managers still operate in a " command-and-control reflex." It was the fulfillment of what Peter Drucker called the Age of the Knowledge Worker.

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Automation Won’t Replace People as Your Competitive Advantage

Harvard Business Review

The reason Colvin’s argument is important is because he is speaking through the megaphone of Fortune magazine to the real audience that has to be convinced: the management community. In our highly competitive economy, managers may be too easily seduced by the apparent advantages of automation.

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How CIOs Can Keep In Step With CEOs

Harvard Business Review

The nature of the workforce and management is shifting. Management is trying to adapt to these new realities of the workforce. As Peter Drucker said, "There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.". IT management' Structural changes.

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