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From Drucker To The Lean Startup: The (Literary) Evolution of Leadership Philosophy

Terry Starbucker

Here’s the list of books we talked about, in the order presented, for your reference (with links – and note neither Todd nor I are getting any affiliate commissions or fees): The Essential Drucker - by Peter Drucker. In Search of Excellence - by Tom Peters & Robert H. Out of the Crisis - by W.Edwards Deming.

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Rich Kalgaard: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Bob''s blog entries Albert Einstein Amazon Bill Gates Bob Waterman Brilliant Mistakes Brooke Manville Charlie Munger Forbes on FOX Upside Forbes ASAP Garage Technology Ventures Guy Kawasaki James O''Toole Jeff Bezos Jim Goodnight John Wayne Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Brand Judgment Calls Lao-Tse Michael Dell Oscar Wilde Paul Schoemaker Peter Drucker Rich (..)

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5 Core Values For The Workplace

Tim Milburn

Bob Waterman has written a penetrating little book, Adhocracy: The Power to Change. Peter Drucker has pointed out that our educational system is obsessed with people’s weaknesses. It’s that among the sharp-elbowed hordes pushing through Washington’s corridors of power, they didn’t even stand out.”

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Guest Post: Dilenschneider on Workplace Core Values

Eric Jacobson

Bob Waterman has written a penetrating little book, Adhocracy: The Power to Change. Peter Drucker has pointed out that our educational system is obsessed with people''s weaknesses. It''s that among the sharp-elbowed hordes pushing through Washington''s corridors of power, they didn''t even stand Out."

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The Internet Is Finally Forcing Management to Care About People

Harvard Business Review

It includes Mary Parker Follett (1920s), Elton Mayo and Chester Barnard (1930s), Abraham Maslow (1940s), Douglas McGregor (1960s), Peter Drucker (1970s), Peters and Waterman (1980s), Katzenbach and Smith (1990s), and Gary Hamel (2000s). They require rethinking the fundamentals of management.

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Why only long-term, high-impact books become business “classics”

First Friday Book Synopsis

We seem to live in an age of instant gratification during which the average attention span resembles a strobe light blink and most people are only interested in (often obsessed with) the latest, “the best,” what’s new, the biggest, the fastest, what “they” recommend, etc. It was a 12th century French Neo-Platonist philosopher, Bernard of [.].