First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 12, 2015

During his career, he added nearly $5 billion of value as a science and technology CEO (public, private, IPO), consultant, director, and private equity/venture capital investor. Boni has advanced by taking on the tough assignments of repositioning organizations that had run aground. His firms were recognized on the Inc.

IPO 70

IPO Software Consultative Career 70

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Peter Drucker often talked about the importance of effectively leading knowledge workers - professionals who know more about what they are doing than their boss does. As multiple job - and even career - changes become the norm, companies will begin to experience professionals who leave and then return.

McKinsey 152

McKinsey Loyalty Competitive Advantage Learning-by-Doing 152

Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

“In technology it’s about the people: getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment and helping to find a way to innovate.” ” –Peter Drucker. . “It’s not the tools you have faith in. Tools are just tools — they work or they don’t work. –Steve Jobs.

Covey 128

Covey Welch Long-term Collins 128

Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 7, 2011

The work environment requires increased global savvy, virtual skill, and technological knowledge. As they consider opportunities to advance their careers, talented 'high potentials' share five concerns. How do you honor requests for 'next steps' in my career progression? I was lucky to spend time with Peter Drucker.

360-Degree Feedback 118

360-Degree Feedback Learning Curve Budgeting Career 118

CO2

JANUARY 23, 2011

I remember when I was at the beginning of my career and calling on AARP as a direct marketer to do their work. Technology and its role in travel 2.0 Where has time gone. You know the work of calling on Senior Citizens. Perhaps this is one of those life passages. Pulse Meme Feed What Is Your Brand Against?

Executive Coaching 74

Executive Coaching Strategic Planning Direct Marketing Taylorism 74

CO2

OCTOBER 15, 2010

You may think that there is nothing you can do about it because you have tried everything you know to get your careers moving again. Technology and its role in travel 2.0 At first you blame it on the company, then it may turn to blaming it on your people, and finally it seeps in ever so slowly that it may be you.

Executive Coaching 68

Executive Coaching Strategic Planning Taylorism Taylor 68

CO2

OCTOBER 15, 2010

You may think that there is nothing you can do about it because you have tried everything you know to get your careers moving again. Technology and its role in travel 2.0 At first you blame it on the company, then it may turn to blaming it on your people, and finally it seeps in ever so slowly that it may be you.

Executive Coaching 60

Executive Coaching Strategic Planning Taylorism Taylor 60

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Frances Hesselbein – Former CEO, Girl Scouts of America and Peter Drucker Foundation. Authority on new technology and communication. Bill began his career with Hyatt Hotels Corporation. Claire Diaz-Ortiz – Technology innovator and speaker. Three iconic leaders inspired the 100 Coaches project. Entrepreneurs.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

CO2

JANUARY 21, 2011

Our self-esteem, relationships, and careers are all profoundly affected by the kinds of questions we ask. Technology and its role in travel 2.0 In fact, all through the day we ask ourselves multiple questions-from “What should I wear?&# to “What should I do with my life?&# Pulse Meme Feed What Is Your Brand Against?

Blog 68

Blog Execution Executive Coaching Strategic Planning 68

Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

” – Peter Drucker. As you learn, keep asking yourself “What are the implications for my career, my industry and my life?” An example: the experts in key card computing were displaced by new technology.) Dr. Peter Drucker chose a new area of study every few years.

Learning-by-Doing 56

Learning-by-Doing Drucker Levitt Education 56

HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

Uses technology effectively to enhance communication and collaboration. And if you’re an employee, don’t underestimate the value of leadership skills in your career. As the great management consultant Peter Drucker famously said, “Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.”

Review 105

Review Performance Review Ethics Teamwork 105

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

In an era of rapid technological and social change, in which new management jargons seem to rise even faster than the disruptive startups that coin them, the career of Peter Drucker is perhaps as instructive as his writings themselves. Drucker himself lived in Austria, Germany, England, and eventually the United States.

Drucker 8

Drucker Koestler Open-book Globalization 8

CO2

AUGUST 1, 2010

Technology has put knowledge in the hands of anyone with access to a computer (approximately 76 percent of the U.S. Even if you’ve spent your entire career with the same organization, it was nearly impossible to have kept up with all the changes. Technology and its role in travel 2.0 population). I’m enjoying it.

Management 79

Management Executive Coaching Leadership Strategic Planning 79

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

.” The anecdote was too delicious to ignore, seeming to capture all we (think we) know about Zuckerberg—his casual brilliance, his intense competitiveness, his hyper-rational faith in technology, and the polarizing effect of his compelling software. ” Soon after, Peter Drucker predicted the End of Economic Man.

Drucker 13

Drucker Mayo Technology Globalization 13

Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Peter Drucker has pointed out that our educational system is obsessed with people’s weaknesses. Now, Xerox is reviving its copying business by focusing on the value added by advanced technologies and color copying. They have to solve problems sensibly from the earliest days of their careers.

Waterman 140

Waterman Automotive Learning-by-Doing Industry 140

Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

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. Pooneh Mohajer – Inc. Feyzi Fatehi – Inc.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching Human Resources Magazine CEO 70

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

Our advice therefore can’t boil down to a clear “avoid careers in a, b, and c” or “apply for jobs x, y, or z.” Congress or the European Union can throw all the regulations they want at banking and other industries, but politicians and bureaucrats are no match for today’s cognitive technologies.

Compliance 9

Compliance Drucker Banking Cost 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Our brick institutions have in no way caught up with what today’s technologies make possible in terms of virtual learning and individualized, customized instruction. Technology is fast eliminating the need for students to spend the majority of their educational lives on campuses in huge halls, listening to dull, cardboard lectures.

Education 17

Education Drucker Globalization Trends 17

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.

Consensus 374

Consensus Team Building Blog Team 374

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Despite the East Coast roots of technology entrepreneurship and venture capital (VC), by the 1990s Silicon Valley had gained a major advantage over the Cambridge-Boston area. 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.

Biotechnology 8

Biotechnology Drucker Software Entrepreneur 8

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Peter Drucker has pointed out that our educational system is obsessed with people''s weaknesses. Now, Xerox is reviving its copying business by focusing on the value added by advanced technologies and color copying. They have to solve problems sensibly from the earliest days of their careers.

Waterman 56

Waterman Follow-up Automotive Learning-by-Doing 56

Frank Sonnenberg Online

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As Peter Drucker, the management guru, said, “Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.” Leverage technology. Use technology to help you stay organized, improve efficiency, enhance communication, boost collaboration, and increase accuracy. Delegate nonessential tasks.

How To 100

How To Contingency Plans Delegation Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

The algorithms, software and massively parallel architectures underlying the Jeopardy -winning technology's design are undeniably important, he says. Tomorrow's technologies are increasingly about their ability to learn from you and your ability to effectively train them.

Core Competence 13

Core Competence Human Capital Technology Health Care 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 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. It affects career potential, skills development and the entire value-chain of organizations that serve the expertise business.

Drucker 8

Drucker Core Competence Engineering Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Business education today is anachronistic – it has in no way caught up with what today’s communications technologies make possible in terms of individualized instruction and virtual learning. At the same time, business education needs to return to its roots. In general, let’s promote more dialogue between companies and academia.

Education 10

Education Drucker Gordon Scientific Management 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2012

These two major demographic shifts are so significant that Peter Drucker predicted that historians, looking back at the 20th Century, will view the demographic changes as the most important events of the century (more so than technology, industrialization, globalization and so on). Career paths that always move "up."

Talent Management 15

Talent Management Management Metrics Career 15

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. from the University of Washington.

Executive Coaching 129

Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2011

All through my career, I've heard people talk about their day jobs. You don't have to be Peter Drucker to know that the job you were hired to do last year, last month, or even last week might not be the one you have to do now. We're wrong, though.

Drucker 14

Drucker Project Reference Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Peter Drucker once said that the biggest curse a company can have is twenty years of success. We stay with what we know has worked, assuming that our careers are secure. How about Motorola's failed attempt to build a low-level satellite communications network? Yet they stumbled anyway. That's why the late C.K.

Prahalad 14

Prahalad Outsourcing Drucker Class 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Peter Drucker made the point in HBR''s pages 18 years ago, writing that "Core competencies are different for every organization. Two other observations can be made about the public autopsy of Ballmer''s career: It may constitute another small way that Steve Jobs left a dent in the universe. Well, guess what: it does.

Core Competence 10

Core Competence Innovation Christensen Disruptive Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

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. But he believes that too many of his managers still operate in a " command-and-control reflex."

Delegation 15

Delegation Self-aware Drucker Middle Management 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

“The only way to discover your strengths,” wrote Peter Drucker, “is through feedback analysis.” When we related this finding to the director of leadership development for one of the world’s largest technology companies, he admitted the same was true for his organization. Don’t End Your Career With Regrets in Your Personal Life.

Learning-by-Doing 9

Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up Drucker Leadership Development 9

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.

Blog 419

Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

August 2002: HBR's special innovation issue hits the street, and my contrarian article about the fickle nature of corporate innovation sits sandwiched between stories by the likes of Peter Drucker, Henry Chesbrough, John Seely Brown, and Richard Florida. Breaking Out of the Innovation Box" was not the title I had wanted, but it worked.

Game Theory 8

Game Theory Open-book Innovation Disruptive Innovation 8