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Coffee House Book Review – “The Drucker Lectures” by Peter F. Drucker

Tanveer Naseer

To start off this new series, I’d like to share my review of the book “The Drucker Lectures” which I received as a review copy courtesy of the publisher. On the fifth night, Mahler had the musicians sit in the audience to hear how their colleagues play together.

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12 Best Practices for Leading Effective Meetings

Nathan Magnuson

Even the late Peter Drucker considered meetings a necessary evil. The busier your audience, the earlier your meeting invitations should be sent. But anything extra you can do to help your audience look forward to attending your meetings will go a long way. Some detest them. Poorly run meetings can be exasperating. Make it fun.

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Developing a Servant Leadership Strategy

Nathan Magnuson

Did you know that as an organizational leader, your serving audience goes much further than just your team? Peter Drucker is frequently credited with the quote, “What gets measured gets managed.” Nathan Magnuson is a leadership consultant, coach, trainer and thought leader. These four items are a good place to start.

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Break the Cycle

Deming Institute

Ru ssell Ackoff had a profound capacity for using stories to educate his audiences about the basic concepts of managing systems, both in his lectures and in his books. He also had a profound way with words. The challenge, of course, is determining what is right to do, for such a label is far too easy to apply.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Frances Hesselbein – Former CEO, Girl Scouts of America and Peter Drucker Foundation. Formerly a leader in the automotive, retail, restaurant, media innovation and consulting industries. David Nour – David has developed leaders in global companies such as Disney, Cisco Systems, Deloitte Consulting, IBM. Executive Coaches.

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Incorporating 160 Effective Performance Phrases in Your Performance Appraisal Review Templates

HR Digest

Adapts communication style to fit the needs of different audiences. As the great management consultant Peter Drucker famously said, “Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.” Keeps others informed and up-to-date on relevant information.

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Strategic Planning – Motivation 2.0

CO2

Dan provides us some great insights in his book about what Google has been doing giving employees 20% discretionary time and Best Buy’s ROWE model (Results Only Work Environment) that Jody and Cali developed and launched their own consulting business Culture Rx (they spoke recently at CO2 Partners Eat the Book Event).