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Enabling Growth: Promotions Are So Yesterday

QAspire

That’s because aspiration for growth, unlike career paths (ladders), may not always be linear. Consider this story from my own experience: Jay was bright software engineer who was stuck in maintaining a legacy product for over 5 years. That day, Jay wanted to explore the ways he can grow in his career.

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Your Leadership Mission Should Fit on a T-Shirt!

Marshall Goldsmith

Peter Drucker instilled this short phrase in me, “Your mission statement should fit on a T-Shirt,” as he did with so many others, and it has guided my career for many decades. I can’t make a bad doctor a good doctor, a bad scientist a good scientist, or a bad engineer a good engineer. My mission is simple.

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StrategyDriven Welcomes Hank Moore | StrategyDriven

Strategy Driven

Hank is the highest level of business overview expert and is in that rarified circle of experts such as Peter Drucker, Tom Peters, Steven Covey, Peter Senge and W. He has worked with all major industries over a 40-year career. Edwards Deming. Hank has presented Think Tanks for five U.S. Presidents.

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The End of Expertise

Harvard Business Review

Talk to people in such professional service industries as private banking, auditing, consulting, even engineering, and you begin to hear concerns about the commoditization of professional knowledge. Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. This is quite a departure from where we have been in the past.

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The Renaissance We Need in Business Education

Harvard Business Review

This need to publish to make a career has led to increasingly obscure research of almost no value to real businesses, specialization that encourages silo thinking, and a serious disregard of the importance of teaching students to think. STEM-driven. In general, let’s promote more dialogue between companies and academia.

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The Reason Silicon Valley Beat Out Boston for VC Dominance

Harvard Business Review

Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 8th Global Drucker Forum. Physical proximity to technology creators, cutting-edge engineering talent, complementors, and even competitors matters.

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

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. Pulse Meme Feed What Is Your Brand Against?