Introduction The sun beat down on my back as I stood in Mbare Musika, Harare’s frenetic heartbeat, behind a shaky
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Category: 2025
From Mbare’s Hustle to Digital Horizons: Embracing Zimbabwe’s Second Curve with Stoic Heart
While it still blossoms on the outside
by Vitoria Maia Machado
The exact moment when the soul asks for change Prologue It’s like walking out of a concert in the middle
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The Drucker Forum: a community of curiosity for the benefit of all
Address by Kate Handy at the Peter Drucker Challenge Awards Ceremony, 6 November 2025
All today I have heard my parents in my head. Primarily a Handy twinkle, as I’m not sure my father really believed in having lots of leaders.
He did believe in leadership, though – don’t panic!
Dad would see leaders as more like gamekeepers than the traditional tour guide model.
You know the type: umbrella in the air, standing in front … “Follow me, just listen to me and only look at what I point at.” […]
Turning Classical Design Thinking into a Human-Centred Business Playbook
By Nick Hixson
Business expansion presents organisations with dilemmas as old as commerce itself: how to scale without sacrificing human connection, and how to balance the demands of stability with the imperatives of adaptability. Insight into these challenges can be found not merely in contemporary management literature but also in the enduring structures of the Greek and Roman theatres in Syracuse, Sicily—each an ancient template for organisational design, and more significantly, for cultivating a culture fit for change.[…]
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Beyond the Knowledge Worker: The Rise of the Value Creator
By Mark BĂ©liczky & Hunter Hastings
Peter Drucker did not simply name the knowledge economy — he equipped us to navigate it. His central insight was profound: when knowledge became the primary resource of advanced economies, the knowledge worker would become the defining agent of value creation.[…]
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Next Generation for the Next Management
By Ekin Ilseven
At the Management Summit Lisbon 2025, Richard Straub opened with a Druckerian provocation: management must keep asking what kind of management society needs next. The event itself was built to do that; “Value Creation”, its guiding theme, aimed to transform conventional management, emphasizing how human relationships, trust, and structural agility can drive organizational vitality.[…]
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The Elegant Power of Networked Organizations: A Revolution Beyond Hierarchy
By Doug Kirkpatrick
In an era defined by rapid innovation and relentless change, the bureaucratic hierarchy—once a symbol of industrial efficiency—has become a liability, stifling creativity, disengaging talent, and impeding value creation. […]
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Radical Leadership
By Markus Väth
Following the Second World War, western societies built what was called “social capitalism” (Richard Sennett): an economic system which was dominated by long-term employment, strong unions, stable organizations and long innovation cycles.
This changed from the 1970s. So-called “flexible capitalism” was on the rise and with it came significant changes in economic conditions inside and outside its organizations. These conditions are well-known: massive digitalization, faster innovation cycles, growing dependencies concerning supply chains across borders, increasing political instabilities, weakening unions and the rise of flexible job conditions, often to the disadvantage of the employee. […]