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The Rainmaker 'Fab Five' Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

  Gautam bucks this trend with a great post channeling the timeless Peter Drucker that provides two areas of business that HR must focus on if it truly wants to be seen as more strategic.  In other words produce more, get more in return.  But what happens with under performing team members - should their pay be decreased?

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Digital Transformation Doesn’t Have to Leave Employees Behind

Harvard Business Review

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. These include administrative or middle management functions, which have historically provided jobs for the middle class.

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Companies Collect Competitive Intelligence, but Don’t Use It

Harvard Business Review

This “island mentality” is surprisingly prevalent among talented, seasoned managers. 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. What Did Peter Drucker Really Say?

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Breaking the Command-and-Control Reflex

Harvard Business Review

It was the fulfillment of what Peter Drucker called the Age of the Knowledge Worker. I even edited an essay asking, " Are Managers Obsolete? ". An accumulating body of evidence, from social science experiments to middle manager testimonies , suggests that high levels of inequality discourage cooperation and initiative on the ground.

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What Business Can Learn from Government

Harvard Business Review

In 1989, Peter Drucker wrote an article for Harvard Business Review titled “What Business Can Learn from Nonprofits.” “It’s really a dialogue back and forth,” says Theresa Reno-Weber, Louisville’s chief of performance and technology. We are certainly not saying that all cities are well managed.