10 gurus you should know Nov 14, 2008
You've heard of Peter Drucker, Jim Collins, and C.K. Prahalad. Here we introduce the next generation of management experts who are changing the way business gets done. (CNN -- Money)
ABC only major TV network not airing Obama infomercial Oct 29, 2008
"The Obama campaign has the resources," said Peter Sealey, adjunct marketing professor at the Peter Drucker Graduate Management School at Claremont Graduate University. Sealey said that if the Obama campaign had bought the time on ABC it would have accomplished the rare feat of what's called a roadblock. (Los Angeles Times)
Town questions employee evaluation methods Jul 30, 2008
Weichsel cited the opinions of Peter Drucker as one of the reasons for not doing yearly evaluations. "They sometimes do more harm than good," Weichsel said, adding that yearly performance evaluations are controversial and might be difficult with unionized workers. (New Britain Herald, CT)
True Blue Gents Of Finance May 23, 2008
Had he been a larger than life character like Peter Drucker, the more retiring and ascetic Doriot might have become as famous in his time. Now, Spencer E. Ante's fine portrait of his character has been published as Creative Capital, Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital, by the Harvard Business Press. (Forbes -- Business)
How key performance indicators improve service desk ... May 16, 2008
SMART was developed by management consultant Peter Drucker and is one of the tools in his Management by Objectives process, which helps organizations set performance objectives. The SMART approach also has a variation: SMARTER, which incorporates E for extendable and R for recorded. (SearchWindows2000.com)
Wanted: Executives for China Apr 20, 2008
On shelf after shelf, I could see copies of "Good to Great," by Jim Collins; "Straight From the Gut," by Jack Welch; "Re-Imagine!" by Tom Peters; and just about everything Peter Drucker ever wrote. There was no management topic, no matter how arcane - the science of human resources, anyone. (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
A Handy view of the future workplace Apr 13, 2008
I think of Handy as the British Peter Drucker; however, there is a difference between the two: Although Drucker could write stunningly brilliant sentences, I always found his books unreadable, while Handy can write a sentence and knows how to tell a story. Indeed, Handy has long been one of the most observant business writers on the planet, including the ability to see the future. (Boston Globe)
America needs a historic investment Apr 2, 2008
It doesn t take a Peter Drucker to realize that a four-year veteran of Fort Benning might offer some valuable skills and life lessons that the typical four-year alum of Princeton doesn t possess ... It doesn t take a Peter Drucker to realize that a four-year veteran of Fort Benning might offer some valuable skills and life lessons that the typical four-year alum of Princeton doesn t possess. (Washington Daily News, NC)
Joseph Juran, 103, pioneer in quality control Mar 5, 2008
In a Public Broadcasting System documentary about Juran called "An Immigrant's Gift," Peter Drucker, the late author and management consultant, said Juran's influence on the nation's industrial economy could not be overstated. "Whatever advances American manufacturing has made in the last 30 to 40 years," Drucker said, "we owe to Joe Juran and to his untiring, steady, patient, self-effacing work.". (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
Malcom Gladwell: The Accidental Guru Jan 30, 2008
To the business world, he's now a corporate sage, a 21st-century Peter Drucker ... Gladwell's reluctance to accept the trappings of gurudom reflects his professional DNA: He's more Peter Drucker than Tom Peters. (FastCompany)
Breaking Bread for Better Business Jan 25, 2008
"More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject," management expert Peter Drucker says. As a women entrepreneur, you need to know the ins and outs of this most basic and profitable way to grow your business. (Entrepreneur)
Knowledge Management, A Must for Ghanaian Banks Jan 24, 2008
Academic literature suggests that KM as a self-conscious and new management field could be traced to the management guru, Peter Drucker (1988, 1994) ... We have traced KM to Peter Drucker and definition of the concept attempted. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Career Builders Jan 12, 2008
Peter Drucker, the famed management author, guru and teacher said it best: "Lifting a person's vision to higher sights is the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard." Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes--but no plans. Over my 30-plus years in the business world, I've found that virtually every successful individual I encountered--from corporate executives to government officials to people in small businesses--had a "Personal Action Plan" of some sort. (Forbes)
Cents and sensibility: Should you have an eco-career? Jan 10, 2008
Peter Drucker challenge. The management guru Peter Drucker once said: "There is nothing quite so meaningless as doing well that which need not be done at all." According to Doyle this is one of the greatest challenges for 21st century environmentalists. (Daily Triplicate)
China At The Crossroads Jan 3, 2008
Peter Drucker, the father of U.S. management consulting, once advised that only two business functions produce new customers. They are "marketing" and "innovation." All other functions are expenses. (Forbes)
Brendan Calder: Steady nerves in an unsteady market Nov 27, 2007
The most enduring is The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker. I have 40 of his books. (Globe and Mail)
Has Toyota Lost Its Way? Nov 27, 2007
As much as any company anywhere, Toyota Motor () eagerly embraced many of the key principles that Peter Drucker first laid out in the 1940s and '50s: that corporations must move away from a "command and control" structure and cultivate a true spirit of teamwork at all levels; that line workers must adopt a managerial outlook and take responsibility for the quality of what they produce; that the enterprise must be steered by a clear set of objectives while giving each employee the autonomy to... (BusinessWeek)
'CK's best works yet to come' Nov 8, 2007
Adds Jagdish Sheth, professor of marketing at Emory University's Goizueta School of Business, "Just like Peter Drucker and Philip Kotler, Prahalad has the uncanny ability to sense emerging reality and conceptualise it into a major movement. Examples are core competency, co-creation of value with customers and most recently his focus on the bottom of the pyramid population.". One of CK's biggest strengths is the practicality of his ideas. (India Times, India -- Intl Business)
CEOs can survive bad choices, like developing Crystal Pepsi Nov 7, 2007
No previous book has been as "daunting and challenging to write," says Bennis, management professor at the University of Southern California, founder of USC's Leadership Institute and the 82-year-old dean of leadership gurus after the death two years ago of Peter Drucker. Tichy, professor at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, says they didn't consider Enron-like illegalities and ethical lapses but focused on CEOs who made judgment calls with the companies' best interests... (USA Today -- Money)
Google: A Druckerian Ideal? Oct 30, 2007
Beginning with some of his first major writings in the 1940s, Peter Drucker wanted "work to reflect social values like opportunity, community, solidarity, and individual fulfillment, not just business values like cost and efficiency," explained the late management philosopher's biographer, Jack Beatty. Of course, plenty of companies (as well as other types of organizations) espouse these tenets, and many observe them to varying degrees. (BusinessWeek)
Drucker On…Radiohead? Oct 17, 2007
Peter Drucker loved music Haydn and Beethoven, Mozart and Mahler. Were the late management philosopher around these days, however, he would undoubtedly be grabbed by the newest offering from an altogether different sort of act: the British rock band Radiohead. (BusinessWeek)
Teaching the iGeneration Oct 16, 2007
In a piece in Forbes magazine in 1997 about the growing e-learning movement, management guru Peter Drucker was quoted saying that "Thirty years from now the big university campuses will be relics. Universities won't survive." Recently, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison predicted (echoing the claims about radio 75 years ago) that in the future we will only need about 60 professors. Those great teachers are the ones whose courses will be converted for electronic transmission for consumption by all. (Globe and Mail -- Technology)
Behold, the trends that will unchain us from the office Oct 2, 2007
Management consultant and professor Peter Drucker once asked, "Why would any company pay (in salary and time) to transport a 190-pound body when all it needed was the body's three-pound brain?". Was he just ahead of his time. (Globe and Mail)
Is your boss like him? Sep 28, 2007
Many will put down their copy of The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker and tune into the one-hour season premiere of NBC's comedy The Office. VIDEO: TELL US. (USA Today -- Money)
Where Have the Leaders Gone? Sep 24, 2007
As the late Peter Drucker said: "Leadership is not rank or privileges, titles or money. Leadership is responsibility.". Authentic leaders take responsibility for their actions and the results of their organizations, but they don't try for perfection. (BusinessWeek)
Peter Drucker: Timeless, Ubiquitous Sep 18, 2007
The think tank's mission is to advance the teachings of the late Peter Drucker, the man widely hailed as "the father of modern management." ... I was breezing right along that is, until I got to the penultimate sentence, which contained these six words: "as Peter Drucker has pointed out." I shook my head, burst out laughing, and raced downstairs to tell my wife about my serendipitous discovery ... It is that hardly a week passes when a major publication somewhere in the world doesn't invoke him... (BusinessWeek)
Don't Worry, Be You Aug 8, 2007
One of the greatest thinkers in my field (and in my time) was a man named Peter Drucker. I am very lucky. (BusinessWeek)
Free Will Astrology Jul 25, 2007
(2) "The best way to predict your future is to create it." Peter Drucker. (3) "Leap and the net will appear." Zen saying. (City Pages)
What Drives Our Greatest Leaders Jul 18, 2007
Peter Drucker often noted that Frances Hesselbein (the former chief executive officer of the Girl Scouts and now chairman of the Leader to Leader Institute) was the greatest leader he had ever met. I have to agree with Peters assessment. (BusinessWeek)
Management: A movie guide Jul 6, 2007
The most-quoted management guru Peter Drucker said that managing an information-based organisation is more like conducting a symphony orchestra than running a business on traditional lines. Others have compared it to running a jazz combo, and then there are those who say it's like running a sports team. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
How to build the Games – in 1,000 days May 26, 2007
VANOC bears a striking resemblance to the future corporation that Peter Drucker described in one of his last books, Managing in the Next Society, where the key management skill is the ability to rally and retain knowledge workers by treating them like volunteers. In the next three years, VANOC will double in size, and then double again. (Globe and Mail -- Business)
Late author Peter Drucker saw Mexico, Canada, U.S. integrating so fast, nothing could stop it May 21, 2007
PREMEDITATED MERGER Business visionary predicted North American union in '93 Late author Peter Drucker saw Mexico, Canada, U.S. integrating so fast, nothing could stop. Posted: May 21, 20071:00 a.m. Eastern. (WorldNetDaily)
* The silver lining to impending doom May 8, 2007
The economics writer David Warsh calls it the most memorable economic phrase since Adam Smith's "invisible hand." Peter Drucker, the late business guru, went so far as to declare Schumpeter the most influential economist of the last century. Clearly, any quick survey of technological change validates Schumpeter's essential insight. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Commentary: Godly Work May 4, 2007
If pressed, you might guess it was a pet phrase of Peter Drucker or Jim Collins or some other famous business guru. But it was popularized by Dallas Willard, a philosophy professor. (Forbes)
Agenda: Pension funds get their power from the vote May 2, 2007
More than 30 years ago Peter Drucker predicted that U.S. pension funds would eventually dominate equity markets. In The Unseen Revolution he said it all started with the creation of the General Motors pension plan in 1950. (Globe and Mail -- Business)
Tribute to a legend Apr 30, 2007
WHEN Peter Drucker was alive, he was a legend. Now that he has passed away, he still remains a legend. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Business)
Management guru was always a step ahead Apr 22, 2007
NEW YORK -- Peter Drucker didn't want a traditional biography, says the author who spent 16 months talking to the father of modern management theory to produce what he wanted instead: a book about his ideas ... THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management , by Peter F. Drucker (Collins , $17. (Boston Globe)
Why Study Leadership? Apr 17, 2007
Peter Drucker said The only things that happen naturally in an organization are friction, confusion and malperformance. Everything else is a result of leadership. (Energy Pulse, CO)
Happiness is more than chasing pleasure Mar 7, 2007
Business management guru] Peter Drucker said for high-achieving successful executives to feel best about themselves they needed to give something to their community that was more than writing a check or getting others to write checks. 1. (MSNBC -- International)
"Know-How: The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform From Those Who Don't" Mar 5, 2007
I usually ignore the customary promotional logrolling of this type, but nine-tenths of the way through the book, I sort of skimmed 'em and they unanimously lauded the book as being no less than "a breakthrough," comparing it favorably to works by legendary management demigod Peter Drucker. Well, just about any book would have had a hard time living up to such comparisons, but the quotes served to crystallize my own reservations about this work. (The Ledger)
Time to end blame game and start solving problem Feb 13, 2007
According to Peter Drucker, an effective leader asks, "How can I contribute to my organization?" Effectiveness in handling a disaster like a flood means having enough personnel attending to the victims and delivering supplies. The truly effective people are perhaps not the ones who appear on television. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Editorial)
Info Maven Morningstar Has Its Own Story to Tell Feb 13, 2007
Peter Drucker, the celebrated authority on business management who died in 2005, once observed that while traditional industrial economies operate on a principle of scarcity, information is different. Multiplication. (Bloomberg -- Columnists)
Revisiting 'The Organization Man' Jan 15, 2007
One of Whyte's colleagues, Eric Hodgins, had already satirized the business class in his Mr. Blandings novels, while another, the soon-to-be management guru Peter Drucker, was a scourge of over-centralization. Taken aback by the modest ambitions of Princeton's graduating class of 1949, Whyte (Class of '39) embarked on a three-year sojourn through office suites and suburban developments, interviewing hundreds of managers, executives, professionals and technicians, especially in the Chicago suburb... (Chicago Tribune)
Learn well on the road to success Jan 1, 2007
Copies of new books by Peter Drucker (and John Kenneth Galbraith) would land up in senior managers offices; and Moolgaokar would discuss them in brain-storming meetings. I believe that ambition for career progression and competitive advantage must be preceded by a desire for learni 00004000 ng. (India Times)
Smartest people have something to learn Jan 1, 2007
Peter Drucker, the late, great management guru, wrote in the Harvard Business Review: "It is a safe prediction that, in the next 50 years, schools and universities will change more and more drastically than they have since they assumed their present form more than 300 years ago when they reorganized themselves around the printed book."What will force these changes is, in part, new technology. in part, the demands of a knowledge-based society in which organized learning must become a lifelong... (Albany Times Union)
