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Meet My Next Group of Coaches!

Marshall Goldsmith

Herminia Ibarra – Thinkers 50 #8 Management Thinker 2015-17, #1 Leadership Thinker 2013-15, Professor at London Business School, former professor Harvard, best-selling author of Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. Then Ayse asked us to describe what made us think of them as heroes.

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Bureaucracy is a Bogeyman

Harvard Business Review

It was originally seen as a good thing – a way of allowing organizations to survive changes in leadership, and to resist the capriciousness of powerful individual leaders with vested interests. 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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How CIOs Can Keep In Step With CEOs

Harvard Business Review

As Peter Drucker said, "There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.". CIOs must be aware of the changes in the business world and the enterprise, and how these changes are affecting the roles in the C-suite and their own leadership role. Structural changes.

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The IT Conversation We Should Be Having

Harvard Business Review

Trends that are affecting fundamental concepts of business, and in turn IT: The basic ideas of capitalism--return on investment (ROI) and return on assets (ROA)--are being challenged by the historical stalwarts of capitalism ( Harvard , Drucker Society , Forbes , the London School of Economics and many more). IT management ROA ROI'

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China Needs a New Generation of Dreamers (and New Dreams)

Harvard Business Review

To quote Peter Drucker, “The purpose of an organization is to make ordinary people do extraordinary things.” For those operating in China, this is, indeed, a quandary. I hope that thanks to the platform we have created, every Haier employee will be able to do extraordinary things.