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Thoughts on the Presidency

Leading Blog

In selecting those who might occupy the most important office in this country—the Presidency—we put our potential leaders through a process that is both strange and brutal. The President is, first of all, a manager.” — Peter Drucker, How to Make the Presidency Manageable, Fortune November 1974. You can’t just appoint smart people.”

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The Senior Leader’s Checklist for Shaping Company Culture

Next Level Blog

There’s a reason the late, great Peter Drucker said, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” The authors argued that companies had to pick between one of three paths to value creation and success in the market – operational excellence, customer intimacy or product leadership. Culture needs constant attention.

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8 Essential Principles of Effective Leadership

Leading Blog

Leadership development is a process. Drucker emphasized the importance of a liberal arts education, which he believed was the best training for learning how to synthesize discrete pieces of information into a meaningful whole….All Drucker advocated developing a second interest long before we exhaust our first interest.

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Leading From Within: Shifting Ego, Ceding Control, and Rising Empathy

Great Leadership By Dan

Autonomy is a key one that impacts leaders’ positions and roles which has been found to be a critical component for increasing employee engagement and thence productivity, as noted already by Peter Drucker decades ago, especially in relation to knowledge workers.

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What Peter Drucker Knew About 2020

Harvard Business Review

Every few hundred years throughout Western history, a sharp transformation has occurred,” Peter Drucker observed in a 1992 e ssay for Harvard Business Review. “In For Drucker, the newest new world was marked, above all, by one dominant factor: “the shift to a knowledge society.”. It’s no wonder why.

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Why Peter Drucker Distrusted Facts

Harvard Business Review

Peter Drucker, arguably the greatest management scholar of the past century, was certainly no imbecile, yet one of his most important insights gets ignored in the rush for facts. Drucker provides several theses supporting this broad assertion: If we do not make opinions clear, we will simply find confirmatory facts. "No

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What Does Success Really Look Like?

Tanveer Naseer

One of the reasons why we have a harder time defining success is because many of us are still operating from a reactive standpoint – where our decisions and actions act only in response to what we see our competition doing or as a result of what we encounter or experience. How does this fit in with our organization’s values?