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Culture Eats Strategy for Lunch & Dinner!

Great Leadership By Dan

Our book, “ A Culture Of Discipline:The Art, Discipline, and Practice of Breakthrough Leadership” is the outcome of ten years of practice and experimentation on two key theories developed by two world renowned researchers: Peter Drucker and Igor Ansoff. Igor Ansoff is known as the father of strategic management.

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What Peter Drucker Knew About 2020

Harvard Business Review

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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Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

Statistical and mathematical insights were imported (often from military uses) forming the basis of the field that would subsequently be known as operations management. Peter Drucker, one of the first management specialists to achieve guru status, was representative of this era. Operations Organizational culture'