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New Year Entertainment: Predictions, Forecasts, and Projections

The Practical Leader

Seers, prophets, and fortune-tellers of all sorts have responded to — and preyed upon — the primal desire we have to reduce the uncertainty of what lies ahead. We see how Peter Drucker’s thought leadership continues to guide leaders and organizations. I predict a year of unpredictable events.

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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. This “may be the most important question,” Drucker advised. How do you organize your entrepreneurial within the managerial?” “How

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We Need to Expand Our Definition of Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

But the very model of organizing a business is becoming increasingly challenged by what I call the Big Shift — long-term forces, such as the rise of digital technology infrastructures, that are reshaping the global business landscape. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. And most of us became employees.

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Managers in the Digital Age Need to Stay Human

Harvard Business Review

The technological advances of the digital age have allowed the global workforce to be better connected, more collaborative, and have greater personal impact than ever before. ” The theme of the 7 th Annual Global Drucker Forum is Claiming Our Humanity: Managing in the Digital Age. Or are they? Invest in your people.

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The End of Expertise

Harvard Business Review

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. ” Increasingly, expertise is losing the respect that for years had earned it premiums in any market where uncertainty was present and complex knowledge valued.

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Leading in Complex Times

Harvard Business Review

How likely was it that they would be on top of the rapid developments in Asian consumer markets, or in technology and design emanating from Silicon Valley? Indeed, in a conference next month – the Global Drucker Forum, in the wonderful city of Vienna – I’ll be participating in a bigger conversation.

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Stop Worrying About Whether Machines Are “Intelligent”

Harvard Business Review

Given the trend to a surveillance society, our deepening embrace of technology, and the emerging Internet of Things, are we right to be afraid? The deepest doubts revolve around imagination, our evident capacity to deal with the uncertainties in our lives, and non-computable situations such as choosing a mate or what to cook for dinner.

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