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35 Leadership Quotes from the 10th Global Peter Drucker Forum

Leading Blog

T HE 10th annual Global Peter Drucker Forum was held in November 2018 in Drucker's home town of Vienna, Austria. And yet we often approach it with an engineering mindset. This year’s theme was Management: The Human Dimension. The following are 35 quotes from the two-day event that are worth reflecting on: ?

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Peter Drucker: The Truly Dangerous Thing

Leadership Freak

Peter Drucker Wrong questions when promoting from within: When you need a supervisor for a team of engineers, the question isn’t, “Is this potential… Continue reading → “The truly dangerous thing is asking the wrong questions.”

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Thoughts on the Presidency

Leading Blog

The President is, first of all, a manager.” — Peter Drucker, How to Make the Presidency Manageable, Fortune November 1974. Some do not.” — Elizabeth Drew, The New Yorker , Running, November 23, 1975. You can’t just appoint smart people.” Newt Gingrich, 2011. No real-world human being brings to the U.S.

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Enabling Growth: Promotions Are So Yesterday

QAspire

Consider this story from my own experience: Jay was bright software engineer who was stuck in maintaining a legacy product for over 5 years. Structures built for helping people grow end up suffocating them. That’s because aspiration for growth, unlike career paths (ladders), may not always be linear.

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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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COMMUNICATIONS

Izell Leadership

Engineer/Author. Peter Drucker. “Organizations are realizing that more frequent, ongoing conversations may be the missing link in performance management, but there is a huge caveat: Managers have to understand how to have effective performance conversations with employees,” the report read. Edward Deming.

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Coffee House Book Review – “Workarounds That Work” by Russell Bishop

Tanveer Naseer

An example he shares that demonstrates this principle is of aeronautics engineer Armando Martos who had to work with a well-known professor who insisted that the design Armando was proposing wouldn’t work because it contradicted what the professor wrote in his authoritative textbook. for Canadian readers.

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