Deming Institute

JUNE 30, 2020

In one of his conversations found on YouTube and posted on January 11, 2010 (the year following his death), Dr. Ackoff provides the following insight about leaders doing the “right and wrong” things in the systems they lead: Peter Drucker said “There’s a difference between doing things right and doing the right thing.” ” Want More?

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CO2

OCTOBER 29, 2010

By Robert Strohmeyer , PCWorld Apr 25, 2010 8:00 pm You know all about Google’s smorgasbord of Web tools, but have you tried Measy, Topicfire, or Yammer? 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.

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CO2

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

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. My company, Time Diagnostics, have worked with Phil Zimbardo to integrate the ZTPI into a coaching tool called the Time Intelligence Report.

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Zimbardo Parcell Executive Coaching Strategic Planning 143

CO2

OCTOBER 29, 2010

By Robert Strohmeyer , PCWorld Apr 25, 2010 8:00 pm You know all about Google’s smorgasbord of Web tools, but have you tried Measy, Topicfire, or Yammer? 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.

Executive Coaching 79

Executive Coaching Travel Strategic Planning Video 79

CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

By doing this, you will accelerate the entire planning process and the manner decisions are being made throughout the organization. If the organization agrees on how decisions will be made upfront imagine how much faster organizations will move and how much further down the organization decision making can happen.

Executive Coaching 79

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CO2

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Recently I was working with a small restaurant chain of 6 locations and they decided to involve all the managers into the planning process in the planning room and all employees to participate in company wide data collection effort that would shape the future plans of the direction of the organization. Motivation 2.0 How many do you involve?

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Strategic Planning Motivation Planning Executive Coaching 76

CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

By doing this, you will accelerate the entire planning process and the manner decisions are being made throughout the organization. If the organization agrees on how decisions will be made upfront imagine how much faster organizations will move and how much further down the organization decision making can happen.

Executive Coaching 68

Executive Coaching Strategic Planning Brainstorming Execution 68

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. I use a tool I have developed to help companies Vision statement worksheet (attached). One of the first questions I ask an organizational leader is what is your vision.

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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. I use a tool I have developed to help companies Vision statement worksheet (attached). One of the first questions I ask an organizational leader is what is your vision.

Executive Coaching 104

Executive Coaching Execution Strategic Planning Marketing 104

CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

These are: Customer Segments – An organization serves one or several customer segments. I have included some links to online tools that they provide from their website. They look at 9 Building Blocks that form the business canvas. It may be that I use many of the strategic models that the book integrates into their process.

Business Model 141

Business Model Executive Coaching Execution Blog 141

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Fulfilling technology’s potential will require leaders to recreate the way their institutions operate in a world of digital ubiquity. Or as Richard Straub of the Peter Drucker Society of Europe puts the question , “are managers equipped – in terms of skills, competencies and courage – to lead us toward the Great Transformation?”.

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Management Drucker Technology Information Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2017

Management teams and organizations that prioritize inclusion attract better talent and perform better. Drucker Forum 2017: Growth and Inclusive Prosperity. This article is one in a series related to the 9th Global Peter Drucker Forum, taking place in November 2017 in Vienna, Austria. Foster competition and collaboration.

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Management Drucker Diversity Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

. “To prosper over time,” he argued, “companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.” Through a well-structured operating process, partners expand and align their efforts and draw on comparative strengths.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

We can make new tools, and we can make new rules. Our sense is that the structures, processes, and compensation schemes of most organizations today are quashing more motivation and constraining more capability than they are promoting. The two don’t always march in lockstep. So we think some rallying is in order.

Management 11

Management Drucker Short-term Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

The earliest business schools sought to provide the tools and teach the skills required to become a successful business person at the time, like bookkeeping, efficient manufacturing, and contract law. The economics of operating large campuses, and big faculties and admin staff are inflating the costs of business education beyond reason.

Education 17

Education Drucker Globalization Trends 17

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.

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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. Tumbling transaction costs are altering the economics of organizations and, at a stroke, invalidating old business models. This is a situation that cannot endure.

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Management Drucker EPS Short-term 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 Future of Operations. Insight Center.

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Case Study Software Process Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

The early business schools sought to provide the tools and teach the skills required to become a successful business person at the time, like bookkeeping, efficient manufacturing, and contract law. The economics of operating large campuses, big faculties, and admin staff are inflating the costs of business education beyond reason.

Education 10

Education Drucker Gordon Scientific Management 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

But whatever happens with investigation, there are a couple of lessons we can all take away if we are trying to create behavior change in our own organizations. Tools are necessary but not sufficient for behavior change. Tools are necessary but not sufficient for behavior change. Simply providing tools (e.g.

Metrics 12

Metrics Education Software Tools 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Shifting from Drucker's erudition and measured tone to Hammer's revolutionary and provocatively violent declarations ("don't automate, obliterate") was a bit dizzying. During difficult economic times, organizations often seek ideas on how to cut costs or perform operations more efficiently. All Ideas have progenitors.

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

But imagine if the road that led to the Seattle City Council ridesharing hearings this month — with rulings that sharply curtail UberX, Lyft, and Sidecar’s operations there — had been a vastly different one. It still operates today. The public entrepreneur needs to understand how the tools she uses — incentives, rewards, etc. —

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Entrepreneur Osgood Storytelling Osborne 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

It comes about as fields of knowledge are segmented into multiple domains, and each domain develops deep algorithmic knowledge and specialized tools that work by ignoring many of the variables actually in play. This is why management continues to advocate diversity as integral part of any successful organization.

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Senge Education Rogers Tools 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

Managers'' eyes were opened to the reality that organizations are not just complicated but complex. Here, the shareholder value philosophy, which determines so much of how our corporations operate these days, is the perfect example. Why did this interest and work in complexity not lead to major changes in management practices?

Management 9

Management Short-term System Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

The section on the profit maximization hypothesis at the end of the introductory chapter of his classic 1988 textbook on industrial organization concludes by saying that even if a firm doesn’t maximize profits, it can be treated, for the purposes of many of its interactions with the outside world, as if it does. Economy Finance'

Management 8

Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

The section on the profit maximization hypothesis at the end of the introductory chapter of his classic 1988 textbook on industrial organization concludes by saying that even if a firm doesn’t maximize profits, it can be treated, for the purposes of many of its interactions with the outside world, as if it does. Economy Finance'

Management 8

Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2016

It’d be hard to choose two words that feel less descriptive of life inside a large organization than “lean” and “startup.” Our survey found that the biggest concern about lean startup in large organizations is “showing the product too soon.”) Ramazan Balay. There are two reasons for that.

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