Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

There’s a reason the late, great Peter Drucker said, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” In this post, I want to share a short checklist of things senior leaders need to think about and do to shape and drive cultures that make strategies successful. When that’s the case, the outcomes usually aren’t the greatest.

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Lead on Purpose

MARCH 30, 2013

Don’t confuse motion with progress.” –Peter Drucker. The societal disease of our time—short-term thinking.” –Warren Bennis. “A Its integrated framework of the elements of management effectiveness provides users easy access to quotes, video clips, anecdotes, and exercises on any element of management. Eisenhower.

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Nathan Magnuson

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Long-term Solution – What is most ideal long-term? Many organizations are artificially focused on the short-term – this month or this quarter. Peter Drucker said, “Once the facts are clear, the decisions jump out at you.” Customer Experience – What would delight the customers the most?

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The key to overcoming all of the above issues is culture, because as Peter Drucker famously said: “Culture eats strategy for breakfast”. Engagement for engagement sake will only ever bring short-term results; engagement around a cause, however, will keep your employees motivated for years. Turn your company into a cause.

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Nathan Magnuson

MARCH 5, 2018

I first heard the term “servant leadership” in high school. One of my initial aversions to the term was that while it sounded nice, the connection to results was soft or overlooked entirely. In short, it puts the needs of others above the needs of self, but without sacrificing the underlying needs of the organization.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

MAY 7, 2020

He, Peter Drucker, Tom Peters and perhaps a handful of others in the 1980s jump-started the ongoing obsession with leadership that appears from all available indicators to be both very much alive—and well! Three short months ago, literally no one saw this coming. Consider two elements of short-term advice: Keep your head (mindset).

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 30, 2013

Francis Hesselbein, considered by Peter Drucker to be one of the greatest leaders of all time, said it best: “Successful transition is the last act of a great leader”. If so, put them on your “short list” of successors. However, if you are preparing someone to step into your role, either short term (i.e.,

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 4, 2013

As a board member of the Peter Drucker Foundation for 10 years, I had the privilege of listening to Peter speak on many occasions. One of the reasons that he is quoted so frequently is that he had the gift of distilling meaningful concepts into short phrases. Learning to Ask. ” My first suggestion for you is simple. Start asking.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 12, 2015

For most of us, the prospects of sleeping in late, lounging on the beach, improving our golf scores, living on cruise ships, and lazing about all day may sound good for a short time, but they hold little allure for us in the long-term. So, what really matters in life? 2) Health. 3) Relationships. 4) Contribution/Achievement.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

In 1981, Peter Drucker delivered a lecture at New York University titled “ Managing the Increasing Complexity of Large Organizations.” But, as was his wont, Drucker didn’t just provide answers. This “may be the most important question,” Drucker advised. How do you organize your entrepreneurial within the managerial?” “How

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HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

Balances short-term and long-term solutions when solving problems. As the great management consultant Peter Drucker famously said, “Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.” Takes calculated risks to solve problems in a timely and effective manner.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Just the other day I was having a conversation with a good friend of mine who’s in a doctorate in leadership program but yet he finds himself reading a lot of Peter Drucker etc., and he was talking about how Drucker was one of the first people that elevated management as a thing to strive for. That’s what the MIX is all about.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 18, 2016

Why I realize we cannot all be entrepreneurial in the sense that we can’t all start our own companies, I believe we can all be entrepreneurial in terms of how we approach our careers. Peter Drucker once told me that companies should be able to “put their mission statement on a T-shirt.” This is critical! Build your own brand.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

Note, for example, the spirited defense by Paul Polman of Unilever of his long-term, sustainable business philosophy in the wake of a takeover attempt. In it, he points to the growing threat posed by activist investors who push for short-term share-boosting tactics without regard for firms’ long-term viability.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post. It reminds me of Drucker’s first rule of decision making: one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement. A team helps to create the best foundation for a decision or action. Good input is.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Those who call for fixing our financial system and reforming our capital markets often cite the “short-termism” of American companies and their lack of long-term corporate thinking. Peter Drucker wrote that the manager’s job is to keep his nose to the grindstone while lifting his eyes to the hills. Their solution?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2016

The problem with the term “maximize shareholder value” is that it has been hijacked by those who incorrectly believe that the goal is to maximize short-term earnings to boost today’s stock price. Properly understood, maximizing shareholder value means allocating resources so as to maximize long-term cash flow.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 8th Global Drucker Forum. They consistently characterized their peers as too short-term oriented to create truly disruptive change, and the country’s cumbersome state-owned enterprises as too slow.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

But the very model of organizing a business is becoming increasingly challenged by what I call the Big Shift — long-term forces, such as the rise of digital technology infrastructures, that are reshaping the global business landscape. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. What is to be done? Who can do all this?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 8th Global Drucker Forum. Peter Drucker called this a turning point in human history. Drucker observed long ago that each social problem is a business opportunity in disguise.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

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?”. But, as Drucker also said, “unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes, but no plans.” But vision is not enough.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

Hayes and Abernathy laid the blame instead at management’s doorstep – citing in particular the short-termism that had infected the managerial community and caused them to underinvest in long-term innovation projects. Looking around, they saw pundits blaming economic macro forces for America’s decline relative to Japan. We can manage.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

These types of cuts are applauded as canny, even heroic, by stock markets — despite their damage to the longer-term value-creating capacity of the enterprise. Even worse, they downgrade the human being to a mere resource, no more privileged than others in the design of systems to produce short-term gains for shareholders.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

With Hillary Clinton’s tax proposals to encourage longer-term investing , the debate over whether American business is too fixated on the short term has moved from the dimly lit offices of earnest policy wonks into the klieg lights of U.S. R&D spending falls into the long-term bucket. primary season.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Organizations still emphasize exploitation of existing advantages , driving a short-term orientation that many bemoan. By the early 1900’s, the term “management” was in wide use, and Adam Smith’s ideas came into their own. This was the rise of what Drucker famously dubbed “knowledge work.” Townes, and Henry L.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

We incorporate Peter Drucker, who was my professor when I got my doctorate and a good friend afterward for many, many years until he passed away some years ago. DAVID: I absolutely love … I should add you’re the author of this new book “The Practical Drucker.” He was very practical.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

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. (Existing companies also use network effects of monopolies and duopolies, distribution channel kickbacks, etc., to stifle competition.).

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

The eight steps are: 1) Create Urgency, 2) Form a Powerful Coalition, 3) Create a Vision for Change, 4) Communicate the Vision, 5) Remove Obstacles, 6) Create Short-term Wins, 7) Build on the Change. Drucker is considered the most influential management thinker ever, and the one who introduced the term “Knowledge Worker.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Peter Drucker famously said that the point of a business was to create a customer. And short-term numbers at that. In the end, your shareholders, the real ones—the ones who care about long-term performance — will thank you for it. No, it’s to maximize shareholder value. Innovation Leadership Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

This type of short-term alliance allows us to further test our working relationship, which might later lead to collaboration on an article, and so forth. As Peter Drucker said, "The leaders who work most effectively, don't think 'I', they think 'we'.'we' If rendered in public, and behind their back , even better.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2011

Yes, they welcome the status, privilege, and power that often accompany managerial roles, but they either see the job as detracting from their "real work," or they conceive of management quite narrowly — as focusing on organizational structure, short-term strategy, and the next quarter's profits.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Peter Drucker made the point in HBR''s pages 18 years ago, writing that "Core competencies are different for every organization. He pointed out that companies had much more to gain in the short-term, and therefore were tooled to compete, by exploiting opportunities already found than by exploring the business landscape for new ones.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

Of course we know that constantly dialing down expenses and investments to boost short-term margins inevitably damages the long-term health of the company. This post introduces a series of perspectives leading up to the fifth annual Global Drucker Forum in November 2013 in Vienna, Austria.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Yes, work still needs to be done to better align CEO compensation with long-term value creation, but that work is already well underway. This post is part of a series leading up to the 2014 Global Drucker Forum , taking place November 13-14 in Vienna, Austria. All this is becoming canonical among enlightened executives.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Yes, work still needs to be done to better align CEO compensation with long-term value creation, but that work is already well underway. This post is part of a series leading up to the 2014 Global Drucker Forum , taking place November 13-14 in Vienna, Austria. All this is becoming canonical among enlightened executives.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Lafley used the late Peter Drucker. Set short-term achievable goals, and keep your promises. Now is also the time for tapping smart people externally who ask good questions; former Procter & Gamble CEO A.G. Board composition is a priority; analysts have faulted the HP board for the current mess.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Peter Drucker wrote : “One is responsible for one’s impacts, whether they are intended or not. Short of “owning” the problem, this still acknowledges that others associate the problem with you, and you are in a position to make a difference. Gorman added his voice to calls for the minimum wage to be raised in the U.S., Take Action.

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