N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

I have been generally well regarded throughout my career for building extremely effective teams, and what I can share with you is that team building is not about equality at all. It reminds me of Drucker’s first rule of decision making: one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement. Consensus isn’t the goal.

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Consensus Team Building Blog Team 388

HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

And if you’re an employee, don’t underestimate the value of leadership skills in your career. But it’s not just about the immediate impact on day-to-day operations. As the great management consultant Peter Drucker famously said, “Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.”

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Review Performance Review Ethics Teamwork 105

CO2

AUGUST 1, 2010

Even if you’ve spent your entire career with the same organization, it was nearly impossible to have kept up with all the changes. Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. I’m enjoying it.

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Management Executive Coaching Leadership Strategic Planning 79

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

During the last five years of my corporate management career, I had a great deal of leadership development. But, anecdotally, the consultants I’ve talked with agree that my own experience, heavily backloaded with training, is by no means unique. ” — Peter Drucker. Leadership development is sexier. Less prosaic.

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Training Development Management Budgeting 11

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

In addition, because of the successive generations entering the workforce, rising education levels, globalization, the flattening of organizations, and an increased willingness to change careers and companies, employees have come to understand they can add more value doing meaningful work.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. A book that is a favorite among consultants. Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. Drucker passed away in 2005. Listed in no particular order.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

But he believes that too many of his managers still operate in a " command-and-control reflex." They're a lot like he was earlier in his career: good at holding subordinates accountable but bad at setting clear expectations. It was the fulfillment of what Peter Drucker called the Age of the Knowledge Worker.

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Delegation Self-aware Drucker Middle Management 15

Strategy Driven

MARCH 7, 2014

The art with which we build our careers and our legacy is a journey that benefits many others along the way. None of the limbs and twigs on each branch (staff-consultants) provide all nourishment required to breed a healthy tree (company). These keep the branches, limbs and twigs (divisions, consultants and vendors) on a growth curve.

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Balanced Scorecard Budgeting Risk Management Learning-by-Doing 74

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

What distinguishes members of one group from another rarely has anything to do with intellect, wealth, social pedigree, career standing, or other like pursuits…It has everything to do with desire. It includes books by Peter Drucker, Charles Handy, Charles Koch, Jack Welch, and Bob Sutton.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

I think those sorts of informal ways of understanding servant-leadership can help a lot within organizations and then after you reach a certain level of commitment and understanding, there are consultants and trainers who have been working with servant leadership for many years. Peter Drucker wrote a foreword to that book.

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 125

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

I think those sorts of informal ways of understanding servant-leadership can help a lot within organizations and then after you reach a certain level of commitment and understanding, there are consultants and trainers who have been working with servant leadership for many years. Peter Drucker wrote a foreword to that book.

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