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35 Leadership Quotes from the 10th Global Peter Drucker Forum

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T HE 10th annual Global Peter Drucker Forum was held in November 2018 in Drucker's home town of Vienna, Austria. Leadership is a distributed capability throughout the organization. This year’s theme was Management: The Human Dimension. The following are 35 quotes from the two-day event that are worth reflecting on: ?

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Leading Thoughts for July 8, 2021

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Peter Drucker on personal responsibility: “It is the mark of a mature person to ask: ‘What do I want to get out of life?’—and Tomorrow it will be the mark of a free person to ask: ‘What do I want to get out of organizations?’—and The wish, however, must be implemented by deeds.”. Source: The Walking Drum.

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Managing Company Culture Anthropologically

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On the one hand, most CEOs agree with with the statement attributed to Peter Drucker: culture eats strategy for breakfast. Typically, a large organization will administer a culture survey — a large inventory of questions that results in placing the “company culture” into one of several “culture types” or “culture orientations.”

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LeadershipNow 140: December 2020 Compilation

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Examining Harvard Business Review Press’ New Drucker Library by @brucerosenstein. Should you really build leaders at every level of your organization? Here are a selection of tweets from December 2020 that you don't want to miss: A Decade of Ideas for New Year Success by @Mark_Sanborn. What Makes a Great Leader? by @ScottEblin.

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First Look: Leadership Books for November 2013

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The Practical Drucker : Applying the Wisdom of the World''s Greatest Management Thinker by William A. Choosing Change : How Leaders and Organizations Drive Results One Person at a Time by Walter McFarland and Susan Goldsworthy. Hatching Twitter : A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal by Nick Bilton.

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LeadershipNow 140: April 2017 Compilation

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Jim Collins: Ten Lessons I Learned from Peter Drucker. How Leaders Build Great Organizations … And How They Can Destroy Them by @LollyDaskal. Collaborative Thinking: Do You See Problem Solving as Collaboration? by @KateNasser. Handel’s Messiah and Why it’s Never Too Late for Your Dream by @PhilCooke.

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Thoughts on the Presidency

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The President is, first of all, a manager.” — Peter Drucker, How to Make the Presidency Manageable, Fortune November 1974. Some do not.” — Elizabeth Drew, The New Yorker , Running, November 23, 1975. You can’t just appoint smart people.” Newt Gingrich, 2011. No real-world human being brings to the U.S.