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Monthly Archives: November 2014

Can Management Advance in This Way? A Question from the Global Drucker Forum 2014

The 6th Global Drucker Forum ended on November 14 with a series of comments and calls to action from the major speakers involved. The last of these was HBS professor Clay Christensen, who called for more cooperation and harmonizing of … Continue reading →

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Oppressive Bureaucracies Are a Symptom Not a Cause: Part I

This week I am off to Austria for two conferences. I am a keynote speaker at the Innovation Congress in Villach on November 13, where I will be talking about “The Ecology of Innovation” and I will then travel to … Continue reading →

Posted in Change, General | Tagged bureaucracy, change, clueless leadership, community, Drucker Forum, ecological perspective, ecological rationality, embodied mind, Gary Hammel, GPDF14, hubris, hunter-gatherer, hunting dynamics, Innovation Congress, Jian Ghomeshi, myopia, The New Ecology of Leadership | Comments Off on Oppressive Bureaucracies Are a Symptom Not a Cause: Part I

The Great Transformation: a Historical Perspective

The sixth annual Drucker Forum takes place in Vienna from November 13 to 14. The theme is the “The Great Transformation: Managing Our Way to Prosperity” and the forum features a pantheon of the ABCs (academics, business people, and consultants) … Continue reading →

Posted in Change, General | Tagged Adrian Wooldridge, Andrew Hill, Clayton Christensen, Conservative, Drucker Forum, Ecological Vision, Gary Hamel, Gemeinschaft, Gesellschaft, Great Transformation, liberal, Martin Wolf, Milton Friedman, Peter Drucker, Rita McGrath, Roger Martin, The Fatal Conceit, Walter Bagehot | Comments Off on The Great Transformation: a Historical Perspective