First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 21, 2015

Award-winning marketing expert Linda J. Popky, the founder and president of Redwood Shores-based Leverage2Market Associates, transforms organizations through powerful marketing performance. She’s been involved with many of the Silicon Valley companies who developed and deployed the technologies that have […].

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Consultative Marketing Technology Power 70

HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

To make the most of performance appraisals, it’s important to use performance appraisal examples that reflect your organization’s culture and values. Uses technology effectively to enhance communication and collaboration. Acts as a positive role model for effective communication within the organization.

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Review Performance Review Ethics Teamwork 105

The Practical Leader

JANUARY 8, 2019

This time of year, we’re bombarded with glib and confident “experts” forecasting everything from the economy, to global warming, to financial markets, social trends, weather, and lots more. We see how Peter Drucker’s thought leadership continues to guide leaders and organizations. Some can be good fun.

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Project Letter Trends Wilde 67

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Frances Hesselbein – Former CEO, Girl Scouts of America and Peter Drucker Foundation. Authority on new technology and communication. World leading researcher on the impact of leadership in organizations. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Three iconic leaders inspired the 100 Coaches project.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

In 1981, Peter Drucker delivered a lecture at New York University titled “ Managing the Increasing Complexity of Large Organizations.” But, as was his wont, Drucker didn’t just provide answers. Speaking slowly, through his thick Viennese accent, he asked questions: “How do we organize the new within the old?” “How

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Drucker Bottom-up Rogers Uncertainty 9

CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

As you dig further into the vision of the organization you arrive at some convoluted unclear set of words that you would never now if you accomplished them or not. Your company or organization originally was founded on a purpose to change something for someone. Often the response is, “I would like to think so.”

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Executive Coaching Execution Strategic Planning Marketing 104

CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

As you dig further into the vision of the organization you arrive at some convoluted unclear set of words that you would never now if you accomplished them or not. Your company or organization originally was founded on a purpose to change something for someone. Often the response is, “I would like to think so.”

Executive Coaching 104

Executive Coaching Execution Strategic Planning Marketing 104

First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 24, 2016

David Evans and Dick Schmalensee are among the early pioneers in the research of “multi-sided markets” and the economic principles that inform the unique design of business models, pricing and incentive structures, and product design for these platform-based businesses. David is an economist, business adviser, and entrepreneur.

Incentives 70

Incentives Business Model Entrepreneur Price 70

CO2

DECEMBER 28, 2010

I’m talking fully baked in, that the concept has become part of the DNA of the entire organization, like a chocolate chip cookie can’t be a chocolate chip cookie without the chocolate chips. How did they miss the strategy to change as the market changed? How many of you would miss Kodak if it disappeared as a company today?

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Strategic Planning Executive Coaching Planning Execution 76

CO2

DECEMBER 28, 2010

I’m talking fully baked in, that the concept has become part of the DNA of the entire organization, like a chocolate chip cookie can’t be a chocolate chip cookie without the chocolate chips. How did they miss the strategy to change as the market changed? How many of you would miss Kodak if it disappeared as a company today?

Strategic Planning 76

Strategic Planning Planning Executive Coaching Film 76

CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

These are: Customer Segments – An organization serves one or several customer segments. Technology and its role in travel 2.0 They look at 9 Building Blocks that form the business canvas. Pulse Meme Feed What Is Your Brand Against?

Business Model 141

Business Model Executive Coaching Execution Blog 141

Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 2, 2013

I know companies — strong organizations — centered on these values. But what if all our organizations started with the same short list? “They,” however, is not anyone of them, but rather a nameless, faceless force hiding in the organization. Accountability. Perseverance. Discipline.

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Waterman Automotive Learning-by-Doing Industry 140

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Production capital took the lead over financial capital and real value over paper value, as Carlota Perez has so well demonstrated in her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. Peter Drucker called this a turning point in human history.

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Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

The advent of the modern organization and the practice of management constitutes a “social technology” that has been equally transformative. The forces of technology and management will continue to hold equal sway as the 21st century unfolds.

Management 8

Management Drucker EPS Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

In 1985, Peter Drucker made a hopeful case for an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and the creation of new businesses would more than compensate for job losses stemming from the retreat of manufacturing industries in the U.S. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. and other developed economies. Since then, the U.S.

Competitive Advantage 8

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

The following are five candidates for the practical values having foremost importance: Integrity Accountability Diligence Perseverance Discipline I know companies -- strong organizations -- centered on these values. But what if all our organizations started with the same short list? They are invariably successful.

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Waterman Follow-up Automotive Learning-by-Doing 56

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Marshall McLuhan wrote famously about the “global village,” created by new information technologies. In the traditional village, you chatted with your neighbor at the local market, face-to-face: this was the heart of community. Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. Networks connect; communities care.

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Drucker Information Technology Globalization Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Enormous wealth was created for the entrepreneurs who pioneered this way of organizing business, and enormous value was delivered to the marketplace. 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.

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Definition Drucker Entrepreneur Uncertainty 8

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

In a highly productive organization the power and influence of your voice is earned through trust and performance, and not entitlement. However great leaders and highly productive organizations always focus on team building as a key priority. The business world is not fair…it is regrettably most times rather merciless.

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Consensus Team Building Blog Team 333

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Becoming a true digital organization is not just about becoming tech-savvy. Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum. The first step managers need to take is to assess their organization’s purpose and vision.

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Maturity Drucker Osborne Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

The paradox is that companies spend millions acquiring competitive or market “intelligence” from armies of vendors and deploy the latest technology disseminating the information internally. Some estimate the market for market research alone at $20 billion annually. What Did Peter Drucker Really Say?

Competitive Intelligence 8

Competitive Intelligence Company Drucker Review 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

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.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Attrition Uncertainty Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

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.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Attrition Uncertainty Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

Lewis himself echoes many people’s impression of how Peter Drucker defined the term — “assumptions about what a company gets paid for” — which is part of Drucker’s “theory of the business.” In addition to what a company is paid for, “these assumptions are about markets.

Business Model 8

Business Model Drucker Christensen P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Peter Drucker said : “Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.” Drucker’s exhortation, “What gets measured gets managed” is often invoked when approaching execution. marketing team offered the same promotion to U.S. Morsa Images/Getty Images.

Execution 10

Execution Strategy Gantt Chart Film 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

For instance, company-wide variables, such as culture and engagement , play a big role in determining the fate of organizations, so why should we pay CEOs so highly and obsess over which ones are the best ? Recent large-scale studies highlight the effects of CEOs on their organizations. — think they are more important now.

CEO 8

CEO Drucker Peer Review Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum. Since the industrial revolution, institutional trust – the confidence in the relationship between individuals and corporations or organizations – has been the norm.

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Drucker Hotels Decentralization Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum. ” Increasingly, expertise is losing the respect that for years had earned it premiums in any market where uncertainty was present and complex knowledge valued.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

The heart-wrenching scene reminded me of the terrible challenges that today’s job-seekers face thanks to the advance of technologies that make human labor obsolete. While the men of Finisterre could flee economic conditions in Spain, there is no escaping employment market upheaval in the digital age.

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GDP Porter Education Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

Capital markets, as a whole, are also moving in this direction. This is apparent in India, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is using a collaborative approach to build a national digital highway , partnering with the country’s world-class technology companies in the process.

Company 10

Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The explosive growth of ride sharing is a big reason why Hertz reported dismal quarterly results in November 2016, leading to a 23% drop in its market value. For example, in their book, Exponential Organizations , Salim Ismail and Michael S. based unicorns accounted for 56% of the total, with a combined market value of $353 billion.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

For people in organizations facing an external world of mounting chaos, being led by groups of highly idiosyncratic leaders, however authentic, could be confusing and distracting. How likely was it that they would be on top of the rapid developments in Asian consumer markets, or in technology and design emanating from Silicon Valley?

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Drucker Diversity Pharmaceuticals Uncertainty 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

The book is divided into two parts – text and cases – to provide professors with maximum flexibility in organizing their courses. Use technology to provide quick, efficient customer service. As the late business guru Peter Drucker said: The sole purpose of business is to serve customers.

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Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

Most executive interviews reveal no struggle at all, or discuss problems they or their organization solved long before today's stock price. It was the fulfillment of what Peter Drucker called the Age of the Knowledge Worker. Brennan, who worked at Cisco before joining Iron Mountain, is making a valiant effort in his organization.

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Delegation Self-aware Drucker Middle Management 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Innovation is more than whiz-bang technology; consider different strategic intents (e.g., new product, distribution channel, marketing approach). As Drucker said, "the customer rarely buys what the business thinks it sells him;" look for a job-to-be-done, an important problem that is not adequately solved by current solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Organizations must also periodically go through such wrenching times of transition, and it is during such liminal times that leaders have their greatest impact. They must manage to both craft the new world with smart strategy, often in the wake of disruption, and cause the organization to embrace the required change. Lawrence A.

Leadership 8

Leadership Telecommunications Education Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

Yet, more than 50 years after Peter Drucker devised the term knowledge worker, it is quite disappointing to peer inside the operations of any large organization and see how little of their time knowledge workers actually spend on higher-order thinking tasks. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses.

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