Peter Drucker

Chris Zook: An interview by Bob Morris

March 9, 2011

A partner at Bain & Company,  Chris Zook is co-leader of the firm’s Global Strategy Practice. Zook’s work has focused on companies searching for new sources of profitable growth, in a wide range of industries. His published works include Profit…

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How to recover from information overload

February 1, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article co-authored by Derek Dean and Caroline Webb for The McKinsey Quarterly (January 2011). To read the complete article, check out other resources, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Always-on, multitasking work environments are…

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The Change Leader’s Road Map: A book review by Bob Morris

January 30, 2011

The Change Leader’s Road Map: How to Navigate Your Organization’s Transformation Linda Ackerman Anderson and Dean Anderson Pfeiffer/A Wiley Imprint (2010) I recently read the Second Edition of this book (first published in 2001) and the Second Edition of Beyond…

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Wet highways do not cause rain.

January 19, 2011

Many people confuse symptoms with causes when attempting to solve problems. In an article written for Harvard Business Review in 1963, Peter Drucker observed, “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be…

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The 5 Dumbest Management Concepts of All Time

January 12, 2011

Here is an article written by Geoffrey James for BNET, The CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please click here. *    …

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The power of asking & answering the right questions

December 15, 2010

Among the most important and yet often neglected core competencies are (1) asking the right questions, (b) obtaining the right answers to them, and then (3) taking appropriate action. Peter Drucker asserts that decision-makers should focus only what is most important…

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