Remove Drucker Remove Management Remove System Remove Technology
article thumbnail

Training and Development: Top Ten Lessons Learned

The Practical Leader

Waayyy back in the early days of my career, I was a young door-to-door sales rep and then sales manager with Culligan Water Conditioning. I took Dale Carnegie sales, public speaking, and management training courses and got turned on to personal and leadership development. That got me reflecting on decades of my journey in this field.

Training 107
article thumbnail

4 Ways to Manage through Turbulent Times

Marshall Goldsmith

In 1980, Peter Drucker wrote a cutting-edge book called Managing in Turbulent Times. Rapidly advancing technology (sometimes helpful and sometimes not). Here is our recipe for staying your course during turbulent times (in other words, modern times): Create a support system. Immediate and irretrievable communication.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Questions Are The Answer | Management Innovation eXchange

CO2

via Questions Are The Answer | Management Innovation eXchange. Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009).

article thumbnail

JUST ASK LEADERSHIP: WHY GREAT MANAGERS ALWAYS ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS

CO2

The devaluing of questions can be attributed, in large part, to our educational system. During the first and second industrial revolution, when our educational system was designed, we trained our children to be factory workers. Anything the worker needed to know beyond that education could be learned on the job, from the manager.

article thumbnail

Questions Are The Answer | Management Innovation eXchange

CO2

via Questions Are The Answer | Management Innovation eXchange. Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009).

article thumbnail

What Peter Drucker Had to Say About Automation

Harvard Business Review

” If Peter Drucker were around, I don’t think he’d hesitate to serve up an answer: Neither. Drucker, who had watched this struggle play out many times over many years, believed that the inexorable march of machines was neither a panacea nor a complete catastrophe. Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age.

article thumbnail

James Taylor: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

James Taylor is the CEO and a Principal Consultant of Decision Management Solutions. James is the leading expert in decision management and decisioning technologies. James has over [.].