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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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Improving management effectiveness

Lead on Purpose

One of the primary themes of Lead on Purpose is leading effectively regardless of whether you are in a position of authority – in a ‘management’ position. However, I was recently introduced to a new tool that will help managers and leaders of small to large groups direct their teams more effectively. The tool is called ThEME.

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Leading Through Questions: The Transformative Power of Inquiry

CO2

“The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask questions,” wrote management guru Peter Drucker. ” “Is there alignment between our stated and operating values?” So take Peter Drucker’s advice when leading your team – adopt a “know how to ask” mindset.

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Being a Self-Aware Leader: Tasha Eurich

QAspire

Because only when you operate from strengths can you achieve true excellence.” – Peter Drucker, Managing Oneself. As human beings, we evolve and change continuously. Over a period of time, our interests, world view, ways of working, speed of thinking, approach to learning changes.

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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. You have to have a team and operate as a team, and any corporation would have a training program to acculturate people. .” — Elizabeth Drew, The New Yorker , Running, November 23, 1975.

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4 Ways to Manage through Turbulent Times

Marshall Goldsmith

In 1980, Peter Drucker wrote a cutting-edge book called Managing in Turbulent Times. You can’t cement victories into your operating system, but you can cement behaviors. [Edited from Lifestorming by Marshall Goldsmith and Alan Weiss]. Features of today’s turbulent times include: No expectation of privacy.

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The No-Boss Workplace: Can Great Leadership Be Crowdsourced?

Terry Starbucker

Last summer, the local startup Treehouse , a producer of online education courses, decided to create a no-boss workplace by eliminating all the manager positions from its 61-person workforce, thus creating the ultimate “flat” organizational structure. That’s right – aside from the CEO, there are zero managers.