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Revealing Leadership Insights From Thinkers50

Tanveer Naseer

From blue ocean strategy to Michael Porter’s five forces, Vijay Govindarajan’s reverse innovation to Richard D’Aveni’s hypercompetition, great thinkers and their ideas directly effect how companies are run and how business people think about and practice business. Think of Peter Drucker who topped the first Thinkers50 ranking in 2001.

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Getting Innovation Right: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Getting Innovation Right: How Leaders Leverage Inflection Points to Drive Success Seth Kahan Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2013) “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.”

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Gjis van Wulfen: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

At the end of 2002 he started his own innovation organization to spread, train and facilitate the FORTH innovation […]. Bob''s blog entries Albert Einstein and ECCI XII (Faro (2011).

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Sam Ford: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

His 2013 New York University Press book, Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture, was co-authored by Henry Jenkins and Joshua Green. The book was named one of the best business books of 2013 by Booz & Co.’s Sam Ford is Director of Audience Engagement for Peppercomm.

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Creating a Great Rest of Your Life

Marshall Goldsmith

Management guru Peter Drucker considered Hesselbein to be the greatest executive he had ever met. I also had the privilege of serving on the board of the Peter Drucker Foundation for 10 years and being able to observe Peter Drucker. Marshall was the highest rated executive coach on the Thinkers50 List in both 2011 and 2013.

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3 Personal Lessons On How To Succeed At Leadership

Tanveer Naseer

Drucker, and placing one spot below Bill Gates. This approach is something we often read about in terms of innovation – of how we can develop a new product or service offering by running various experiments or pilot projects to test the viability of these new ideas. What Have You Learned Going Forward?

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How Drucker Thought About Complexity

Harvard Business Review

Throughout his life, Peter Drucker strived to understand the increasing complexity of business and society and, most importantly, the implications for how we can continue to create and deliver value in the face of complexity. I have long been influenced by Drucker''s work. It is up to us to pick up where he left off.