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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. This year’s theme was Management: The Human Dimension. The following are 35 quotes from the two-day event that are worth reflecting on: ? Innovation doesn’t happen by one person having an aha moment.

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Deep Factors Shaping the Global Economy

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It is a provocative guide to global trends. He isn’t ignoring the fact that we are losing jobs to the Internet or that people do sell all over the world, but his point is that American culture has made Americans uniquely suited to sell products and services over a more diverse (global) population.

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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

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He quickly pivoted Microsoft from being a company that sold boxed software to a global computing engine that rents out its processing power and online storage to businesses. It was no wonder that they failed to gain traction. Innovation had become the goal, and that wasn’t enough. Nadella changed that. At the time, this was a bold suggestion.

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Nine Key Strategies for Going Beyond Great

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There are three fundamental forces that are transforming the nature of global businesses. And third is “a technological revolution fueled by the exponential growth of global data and digital technologies.”. Strategy #3: Refine Your Global Game. Second is “rising economic nationalism and the ongoing erosion of U.S.

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Moving Beyond Company Organization Silos: Lessons from the Aviation Industry

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If you think the business processes in your own company are complex, try running an operation globally that moves 5 billion passengers every year in roughly 25,000 commercial aircraft, via 15,000 airports located in 195 countries. He formerly ran Procter & Gamble’s famed multi-billion-dollar Global Business Services (GBS) and I.T.

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First Look: Leadership Books for May 2021

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In today’s volatile, fast-paced, and ever-changing global climate, organizations and their employees are under more pressure than ever to perform. What if the next global crisis is a mental health pandemic? What if the next global crisis is a mental health pandemic? Wellbeing at Work by Jim Clifton and Jim Harter.

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Empathy: The Top Leadership Skill for Today’s Work Environment

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To further document empathy’s advantages at work, the Global Empathy Index, published in the Harvard Business Review , examined data from employee’s responses to questions ranging from a CEO’s approval ranking to their own happiness level in their job. It’s a quality that shapes our quest to meet unmet needs of customers.