Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

As managers we cycle between these modes constantly. It''s the mark of a great manager to be able to judge, in a complex situation, when and how to use each of them. From about the age of seven onward, however, we develop the capacity for perspective-taking. Detached observation requires a certain maturity.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

More than a year after its publication, I’m still reeling from the results of Gallup’s 2013 Global Workforce Study. ” The theme of the 7 th Annual Global Drucker Forum is Claiming Our Humanity: Managing in the Digital Age. Here are four observations about managing engagement in the digital age.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

I remember well when the idea of applying complexity science to management was first being eagerly discussed in the 1990s. Gallen had developed a management model based on systems thinking. Managers'' eyes were opened to the reality that organizations are not just complicated but complex.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

So how do people — and even dogs — routinely manage it? Managers under pressure to make many decisions can''t subject every one of them to thorough and dispassionate analysis. This is the kind of thinking that business managers can also profit from. Not by gathering waves of data and solving successive equations.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 7th Global Drucker Forum. In 2013 Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. These include administrative or middle management functions, which have historically provided jobs for the middle class.

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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. Yet, here we are in 2013 with organizational leadership models that continue to deny the social nature of organizations and wallow in inertia.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

The conversation turned to the growing complexity of the business environment, and the question was inevitably posed: What had I, as a business professor, managed to figure out about what it takes to succeed under such conditions? Leadership Managing uncertainty'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

I believe that the solution to the self-inflicted problem of inter-domain complexity is the development of a meta-domain: the domain of knowledge about how to integrate across knowledge domains. This post is part of a series of perspectives leading up to the fifth annual Global Drucker Forum in November 2013 in Vienna, Austria.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

It comes about as fields of knowledge are segmented into multiple domains, and each domain develops deep algorithmic knowledge and specialized tools that work by ignoring many of the variables actually in play. This is why management continues to advocate diversity as integral part of any successful organization.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Increasingly, the CIO and IT must be seen less as developing and deploying technology, and more as a source of innovation and transformation that delivers business value, leveraging technology instead of directly delivering it. IT management ROA ROI'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Megafirm had outsourced the management of the problem to us. When companies become too complex to manage, they create costs to others. If you are a business leader, you don’t want to see any of these developments occur. Think about this failing at a broader level, and the implications are scary. And it is a general tendency.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

In 1989, Peter Drucker wrote an article for Harvard Business Review titled “What Business Can Learn from Nonprofits.” In 2013, for instance, Buttigieg called for staffers in just 1,000 days to address, through rehabilitation or demolition, 1,000 vacant and abandoned properties blighting the city.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

But some CEOs have managed to resist these tendencies. Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, among others, share Warren Buffett’s discipline to read extensively, safeguard time for personal development projects, and constantly seek new stimulus and perspectives. By the end of 2013, emails were reduced by 60%.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

With hard work and study we advanced to a heuristic — that is, we started to understand what variables mattered and developed a sense of the cause and effect. We figured out what causes it and developed a vaccine that if taken protects the individual against the disease forever. This has happened, for example, with polio.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2015

To find out which school of thought is more accurate, we looked at the value of brands and customer relationships as revealed by M&A data covering over 6,000 mergers and acquisitions worldwide between 2003 and 2013. There is a parallel development on the demand (customer) side.

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