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How Drucker Thought About Complexity

Harvard Business Review

In the 1960s and 1970s, he was already anticipating some of the implications of the Big Shift just beginning to emerge: the transition to an information economy, the centrality of knowledge work, and the transformative impact of digital technology on all types of work. It is up to us to pick up where he left off.

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Making Management as Simple as Frisbee

Harvard Business Review

Take Apple and the work it put into building a technology platform on which hundreds of thousands of independent developers could create apps and offer them to Apple''s customers. In the 20th Century, their organizations competed on scale efficiency and relied on hierarchical bureaucracies to run tight ships.