Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 6, 2014

In fields as diverse as energy, telecommunications, and pharmaceuticals the same organization may be a customer, supplier, partner, or competitor. Peter Drucker has noted that knowledge workers are people who know more about what they are doing than their managers do. It is a world of “co-opitition.” Roles are becoming more blurred.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2013

In 1973, Peter Drucker stated in his book Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, "Management is not culture-free, that is, part of the world of nature. What if our approach to leadership was to evolve into Drucker''s vision of "socially accountable and culturally embedded" management? It is a social function.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Fourteen years ago, Darren Entwistle arrived as a young CEO (he is now Executive Chair) and immediately began transforming the regional telecommunications player into a global entity. This post is part of a series leading up to the annual Global Drucker Forum , taking place November 13-14 2014 in Vienna, Austria. billion to $11.7

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

In the 1950’s, Peter Drucker emphasized that business strategy needs to include “purposeful abandonment,” i.e. deciding what not to do. Keeping a business focused on a limited number of products, customers, or capabilities is not a new idea. A case in point is Google’s recent sale of Motorola Mobility to Lenovo.

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