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Culture Eats Strategy for Lunch & Dinner!

Great Leadership By Dan

Our book, “ A Culture Of Discipline:The Art, Discipline, and Practice of Breakthrough Leadership” is the outcome of ten years of practice and experimentation on two key theories developed by two world renowned researchers: Peter Drucker and Igor Ansoff. Igor Ansoff is known as the father of strategic management.

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Management Styles

Strategy Driven

As a reaction to industrial reforms and the strength of unions, a Hard Nosed style of leadership was prominent from 1910-1939, management’s attempt to take stronger hands, recapture some of the Captain of Industry style and build solidity into an economy plagued by the Depression. They were not just “old school.”

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The Big Picture of Business – Corporate Cultures Reflect Business Progress and Growth.

Strategy Driven

As a reaction to industrial reforms and the strength of unions, a Hard Nosed style of leadership was prominent from 1910-1939, management’s attempt to take stronger hands, recapture some of the Captain of Industry style and build solidity into an economy plagued by the Depression. They were not just “old school.”

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Where are you on the management scale of newbie to expert hacker?

Ask Atma

And the Fundaments of managing by objectives : Cascading of organizational goals and objectives, (For example, a top level goal of increasing sales by 20% over a defined period may require a bottom level goal of increasing marketing effectiveness or marketing coverage in order to reach the sales set.). Measurable. Achievable.

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The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten

Harvard Business Review

Teach and institute leadership to improve all job functions. Substitute leadership methods for improvement. Educate with self-improvement programs. Many management thinkers have built upon Deming’s philosophy, yet his core message seems lost to time. All of this implies a more-progressive approach to leadership.

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Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

While schools dedicated specifically to business had been offering classes throughout the 1800s in Europe, the economic juggernaut US gained its first institution of higher education in management with the 1881 founding of the Wharton School. Operations Organizational culture' Other universities followed.