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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.

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Six Drucker Questions that Simplify a Complex Age

Harvard Business Review

In 1981, Peter Drucker delivered a lecture at New York University titled “ Managing the Increasing Complexity of Large Organizations.” But, as was his wont, Drucker didn’t just provide answers. How do you maintain the cohesion” at a multinational corporation with far-flung operations spanning myriad cultures? “How

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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. Mike Sursock – Head of Operations Group at Baring Private Equity Asia.

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The IT Conversation We Should Be Having

Harvard Business Review

The Conversation is also a 1974 film by Francis Ford Coppola whose themes include the role of technology in society and being so focused on what you are doing that you forget why you are doing it and become oblivious to what is happening around you. made me break out in cold sweats. CIOs today must adapt or risk being marginalized.

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The Embarrassment of Complexity

Harvard Business Review

In other words, what produces complexity is not so much the presence of many direct cause-effect links which operate with subtlety versus precision, but rather the presence of indirect, non-linear relationships between the variables, parts, and dimensions of the whole. We have come to rely much – too much? –

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Why Managers Haven't Embraced Complexity

Harvard Business Review

Here, the shareholder value philosophy, which determines so much of how our corporations operate these days, is the perfect example. Technology was not yet powerful enough to capture much complexity. This post introduces 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

The same diminished economic frictions, along with new business models, organizational structures and enabling technologies, have accelerated the appearance of new, unanticipated competitors with new value propositions or the old value propositions presented faster, better and/or cheaper. Barriers to entry have been destroyed.

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