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Managing Company Culture Anthropologically

Leading Blog

Despite its perceived importance, for the most part, companies have a miserable track record when it comes to managing their people. On the one hand, most CEOs agree with with the statement attributed to Peter Drucker: culture eats strategy for breakfast. B USINESSES are really bad at establishing an engaging culture.

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Lessons I Learned from the Father of Modern Management, Peter Drucker

Marshall Goldsmith

At one meeting of the Board of the Peter Drucker Foundation, I asked Peter, “You have written so much about mission—what is your mission?”. Peter replied, “To help other people achieve their goals—assuming that they are not immoral or unethical!”. He not only taught me about management, he also taught me about life.

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5 Steps to Develop Team Goals

Skip Prichard

Strive to Be an Excellent Leader and Manager. The research literature on leadership finds that the most effective leaders are excellent managers and excellent leaders. Leadership guru Peter Drucker said leadership is about determining the right results and management is about achieving results. ” -Peter Drucker.

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Coffee House Book Review – “The Drucker Lectures” by Peter F. Drucker

Tanveer Naseer

One of the new features I will be adding to my blog this year is what I’m calling the “Coffee House Book Review”, which will feature reviews on books from the fields of leadership, management, marketing, and other areas of interest to those who are running or managing a business or organization.

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Lessons I Learned from Peter Drucker

Marshall Goldsmith

At one meeting of the Board of the Peter Drucker Foundation, I asked Peter, “You have written so much about mission—what is your mission?”. Peter replied, “To help other people achieve their goals—assuming that they are not immoral or unethical!”. He not only taught me about management, he also taught me about life.

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Great Resource for Personal Strategic Thinking and Planning

Michael Lee Stallard

This year, rather than reading Drucker, I read Create Your Future the Peter Drucker Way: Developing and Applying a Forward Focused Mindset by Bruce Rosenstein. The author is an expert on Drucker and author of Living in More Than One World: How Peter Drucker’s Wisdom Can Inspire and Transform Your Life.

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What Time Management Looks Like for Successful Leaders 

Skip Prichard

If you’ve ever worked with a financial planner or money manager, you’ll know that one of the first questions they’ll ask you is, “What are you investing for?” They start with goals. Time management is the lynchpin that holds all the other components of management together.” ” – Peter Drucker. Steve Pate.