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Monthly Archives: September 2014

To Kill a Zombie: Ending Shareholder Primacy

Posted on September 23, 2014 by David

The theme of the Drucker Forum to be held in Vienna November 13-14 this year is “The Great Transformation: Managing Our Way to Prosperity”. In the run-up to it Simon Caulkin wrote a mainly excellent article in the Financial Times … Continue reading →

Posted in Change, General | Tagged addiction dynamic, Anglo-Saxon capitalism, change, complex systems, crisis, Drucker Forum, Financial Times, Global Drucker Forum, Lynn Stout, shareholder value, Simon Caulkin, The Great Transformation, Upton Sinclair, vampire, zombie | Comments Off

What They Should Be Teaching at Business Schools

Posted on September 16, 2014 by David

Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton had a recent blog in the Harvard Business Review entitled “How Business Schools Can Help Reduce Inequality” Here is my response: “What is needed is an ecological framework of “both…and” to … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Aspen Institute, business education, business schools, complexity, corporate purpose, ecological perspective, existential questions, Harvard Business Review, Judith Samuelson, Nitin Nohria, Tarun Khanna | Comments Off

Strategy as the Creation of Power: The Lion versus the Fox

Posted on September 9, 2014 by David

This week my blog consists of the review I wrote for Strategy+Business of Lawrence Freedman’s Strategy – a History: Lawrence Freedman defines strategy as the central political art. “It is about getting more out of a situation than the starting … Continue reading →