First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 16, 2013

Schaefer is author of The Tao of Twitter: Changing Your Life and Business 140 Characters at a Time (2011), Return On Influence (2012), and Born to Blog: Building Your Blog for Personal and Business Success One Post at a Time (2013) as well as a globally-recognized educator, speaker, business consultant, and author. His [.].

Influence 75

Influence Blog Education Globalization 75

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. Roland Berger applied its methodology to the French labor market and estimated that 42% of French jobs could be at risk.

Maturity 8

Maturity Drucker Osborne Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

How likely was it that they would be on top of the rapid developments in Asian consumer markets, or in technology and design emanating from Silicon Valley? Indeed, in a conference next month – the Global Drucker Forum, in the wonderful city of Vienna – I’ll be participating in a bigger conversation. Leadership Managing uncertainty'

Drucker 8

Drucker Diversity Pharmaceuticals Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Inter-domain complexity challenges us whenever a hospital patient has co-morbidities (heart and liver problems for example), or a business problem spans marketing and finance, or a political problem bridges foreign relations and domestic economics. Among them will be a common sense that complexity is dropping, not rising.

Finance 8

Finance Education Drucker Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

But even though they know they must innovate in response, they don''t know how to do so in the complex global market. Finding other enterprises that can add value to my value (and vice versa) is the key to responsiveness, individualization, and meeting the market''s needs in the moment. A focus on customers. IT management'

CIO 8

CIO CEO Outsourcing Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

(The fact that, following the creation of the Cap-and-Trade Carbon Emission Scheme as a clever new artificial market, more coal is being burned in Europe than before is a mind-boggling example.) This post introduces a series of perspectives leading up to the fifth annual Global Drucker Forum in November 2013 in Vienna, Austria.

Management 9

Management Short-term System Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

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'

CIO 8

CIO ROI Agility Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

To quote Peter Drucker, “The purpose of an organization is to make ordinary people do extraordinary things.” This happiness is due to the fact that Haier [has] created a platform for everyone to fully exploit their potential and realize their value, rather than taking orders passively or bearing huge stress.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Proposal Stage-Gate Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2015

Since the birth of e-commerce, marketing experts have disagreed about the future role of brands. 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.

Brand 8

Brand Brand Valuation Power Brand Management 8