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How Companies, Governments, and Nonprofits Can Create Social Change Together

Harvard Business Review

We hear similar ideas in Peter Drucker’s bestseller, The Age of Discontinuity , where he argues that all sectors of society are “affected with the public interest” but must operate in symbiosis, like an orchestra—each playing its own part in collaboration with other institutions.

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Philip Kotler: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Philip Kotler is the S.C. Johnson & Son Professor of International Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. He received his Master’s Degree at the University of Chicago and his PhD Degree at MIT, both in economics.

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China Needs a New Generation of Dreamers (and New Dreams)

Harvard Business Review

This is a big dream worthy of our attention, and Alibaba has won the world’s admiration as an exciting and viable organization. To quote Peter Drucker, “The purpose of an organization is to make ordinary people do extraordinary things.” It’s something that could never have happened in most other large, complex organizations.