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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.

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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

It is useful to distinction between three motivations for creating partnerships: Optimization and economy of scale, Reduction of risk and uncertainty, Acquisition of particular resources and activities) Cost Structure – The business model elements result in the cost structure. (It Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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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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3 Traps That Block Corporate Transformation

Harvard Business Review

Digital-first companies, such as Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Twitter, are amassing market share and capitalization, but only a few brick-and-mortar corporations (think Apple, Nissan, and HCL Technologies) have been able to change fast enough to catch up with their rivals. Being illogical can sometimes be a way of achieving the impossible.

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3 Traps That Block Corporate Transformation

Harvard Business Review

Digital-first companies, such as Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Twitter, are amassing market share and capitalization, but only a few brick-and-mortar corporations (think Apple, Nissan, and HCL Technologies) have been able to change fast enough to catch up with their rivals. Being illogical can sometimes be a way of achieving the impossible.

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Leading in Complex Times

Harvard Business Review

It seems to me that this emphasis on authenticity is an important counterbalance to earlier assumptions that people gained leadership powers by dint of titles or positions in hierarchies. So yes, be authentic – but don’t break the mold so completely that others need to spend energy figuring out how to engage with your leadership.

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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. New leadership skills are required.