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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

Think about it: how organizations are run in 2014 is radically different from how they were run just ten years ago. Think of Peter Drucker who topped the first Thinkers50 ranking in 2001. Drucker was writing about knowledge workers in the late 1960s. Who else could you learn from outside your organization?

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What Is Strategy, Again?

Harvard Business Review

If you read what Peter Drucker had to say about competition back in the late ’50s and early ‘60s, he really only talked about one thing: competition on price. Prahalad and Gary Hamel’s 1990 article, “ The Core Competence of the Organization ”). Building on what you already do.

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Stop Trying to Engineer Success

Harvard Business Review

Every organization that aspires to greatness has something to learn from relevant success stories of the past. Many of their consultants advocate an engineering approach: Find multiple examples of organizations that have coped with equivalent challenges successfully. As just one example, academics W.