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How Drucker Thought About Complexity

Harvard Business Review

In this environment, we must re-examine the basic assumptions that drove our business success in the past, starting with the most basic question of all: why do we even come together in institutions such as firms? Perhaps a new rationale will be required to drive institutional success in the future.

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One Reason Mergers Fail: The Two Cultures Aren’t Compatible

Harvard Business Review

provided the founders with considerable latitude in introducing innovative and unorthodox management methods. ” Such decentralization and lack of structure, however, might have ultimately contributed to company-wide inefficiencies that drove up prices. “It should be within the very DNA of the organization.”

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Making #GivingTuesday a Movement

Harvard Business Review

Everyone connected with #GivingTuesday is happy to see excitement growing as our next big day –December 3, 2013 – grows near. Encourage innovations on the theme. It is decentralized and therefore adaptable to existing or new efforts. The second #GivingTuesday will happen on December 3, 2013.

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Making Management as Simple as Frisbee

Harvard Business Review

Not by gathering waves of data and solving successive equations. Moreover, when we look around at the companies who are doing well, it can be hard to see the rhyme or reason of the decisions that led to that success. Continuous innovation is now a requirement for survival. The world seems suddenly unpredictable.

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The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of the U.S. Antitrust Movement

Harvard Business Review

This approach was successfully exported after the War to Europe and Japan to help decentralize economic power and promote an effective competitive process. The authorities accepted the increased risks from concentrated telecommunications, financial, and radio industries, among others, for the prospect of future efficiencies and innovation.