Why does so much management advice sound reasonable but turn out to be of little value? Most readers will know what I mean. Take the following guidance on how companies can āaccelerate their agile transformationā:[ā¦]
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Donāt Mistake Outputs for Inputs: The Folly of Trying to Plant āCut Flowersā
Report on Workshop āNavigating Exponential Growth: Leadership and Decision-Making in Times of Nonlinear Changeā
by David Hurst
Acknowledging the pandemic and its exponential features, he then told the story of Hungarian biochemist, Dr. Katalina Kariko and her 30 year-long quest to make RNA molecules in the laboratory and get mRNA into the cells of the body. Her work would form the basis for the successful mRNA vaccines that have been so instrumental in slowing the spread of COVID-19. Drucker would have called her a āmonomaniac on a missionā.[ā¦]
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Youāre Gonna Need a Bigger Boat!
by David Hurst
Steven Spielbergās 1975 movie, Jaws, tells the story of a seaside town whose shores are terrorized by a killer shark.[ā¦]
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A Fierce Old Story: Fighting a Plague with Common Decency by David Hurst
The rats gave the first clue: they staggered onto the streets, emitted a drop of blood from their noses and died in droves. As their bodies piled up, newspapers agitated, and citizens complained ā why was the sanitation department not removing them? The rodents were collected and cremated and the citizens returned to their preoccupation with working hard and getting rich.[ā¦]
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Report on the Round Table āPeter F. Drucker and the Society of the Futureā by David Hurst
Panelists: Chair: Richard Brem, Senior Advisor, Peter Drucker Society of Europe, Peter Paschek, Management Consultant, Timo Meynhardt, Professor for Business Psychology and Leadership, HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Verena Ringler, Curator, Erste Foundation Aaron Barcant, Independent Researcher, Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy The round table began with Richard Brem introducing the panelists and each of them summarizing why Peter Druckerās work and vision mattered to them. Druckerās vision Drucker always argued that oneās worldview mattered to oneās understanding of oneās role and contribution in society and oneās ability to manage oneself and others. American philosopher Thomas Sowell, describes a vision as a āpre-analytic, cognitive actā that helps simplify an overwhelmingly complex reality. Think [ā¦]
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Wading through the swamp: the radical power of ecosystems-as-processes by David Hurst
The respected management scholar, Donald Schƶn, began his 1987 book, The Education of the Reflective Practitioner, as follows: āIn the
Continue readingThe Engineer and The Gardener: the Central Tension in 21st Century Management
by David Hurst
“Warm hearts allied with cool heads seek a middle way between the extremes of abstract theory and personal impulse” Stephen
Continue readingManagement Needs to Return to Reason
by David Hurst
āThe arts of lifeā¦turn out to possess their own special methods and techniquesā¦Bad judgement here consists not in failing to
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