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Managing Company Culture Anthropologically

Leading Blog

Despite its perceived importance, for the most part, companies have a miserable track record when it comes to managing their people. On the one hand, most CEOs agree with with the statement attributed to Peter Drucker: culture eats strategy for breakfast. B USINESSES are really bad at establishing an engaging culture.

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Being a Self-Aware Leader: Tasha Eurich

QAspire

Because only when you operate from strengths can you achieve true excellence.” – Peter Drucker, Managing Oneself. Storytelling in Business : Nancy Duarte. As human beings, we evolve and change continuously. Over a period of time, our interests, world view, ways of working, speed of thinking, approach to learning changes.

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Chip R. Bell: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

The author of nineteen books, Chip Bell‘s newest book (written with Marshall Goldsmith) is Managers As Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning. He is also the author of Wired and Dangerous (with John Patterson) and Managing Knock Your Socks Off Service (with Ron Zemke).

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 7/15/13)

First Friday Book Synopsis

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS On Conan Doyle: Or, The Whole Art of Storytelling Michael Dirda Reading the Room: Group Dynamics for Coaches and Leaders David Kantor Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff […].

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Spinning Yarns

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is a recent article featured by the Drucker Exchange (DX), “an ongoing conversation about bettering society through effective management and responsible leadership,&# sponsored by The Drucker Institute of Claremont Graduate University.

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Socially Responsible Business Can Only Succeed If It Becomes a Movement

Harvard Business Review

Note especially the brave, innovative management reflected in social enterprises such as the Sampark Foundation , where Vineet Nayar, former CEO of HCL Technologies, is on a mission to inspire kids in rural India to learn how to think and invent like frugal innovators. ” Purpose, moreover, means for him social purpose.

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Automation Won’t Replace People as Your Competitive Advantage

Harvard Business Review

Colvin’s primary argument is that there are some unique human capabilities, like empathy and storytelling, that will keep people employable even as automation chips away at the content of most jobs. In our highly competitive economy, managers may be too easily seduced by the apparent advantages of automation.