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 âaccelerate their agile transformationâ:[âŠ]
Continue readingDonât Mistake Outputs for Inputs: The Folly of Trying to Plant âCut Flowersâ
How To Spark Performance That Matters
by Terence Mauri
When leaders consider the one thing they could do differently today to help their organization be future prepared, where do they start? [âŠ]
Continue readingEröffnungsrede von Richard Straub
Unser digitales Sommerforum ist ein Meilenstein auf dem Weg zur Konferenz, die uns im November in der Wiener Hofburg persönlich zusammenfĂŒhren wird. Beide Veranstaltungen firmieren unter einem gemeinsamen Titel: Performance that matters â Leistung, auf die es ankommt. [âŠ]
Continue readingOpening Digital Summer Forum June 9
by Richard Straub
This Digital Forum is a big step on the way to our in-person Forum in November in the Vienna Hofburg. The two events share one overarching theme â performance that matters. Moving the needle on the performance of an enterprise has always been a challenge â and in todayâs world it is increasingly complex. [âŠ]
Continue readingWhat is performance that matters?
by Raymond Hofmann
It was a cold November morning in 2016. As we walked from our hotel to the conference venue, I asked the late Clayton Christensen why he kept coming back to the Drucker Forum. He said, âAt other conferences, I speak, and here, I learn.â [âŠ]
Continue readingAlignment Between People â the Invisible Opportunity
by Lindsay Uittenbogaard and Giles Slinger
Typically, people think of âalignmentâ in literal terms: to âline things upâ. For an organization, this can mean connecting purpose with strategy and values, and connecting job requirements with capabilities and goals. But what about alignment between people? [âŠ]
Continue readingAll that glitters is not gold
by Celine Schillinger
What if entrepreneurial spirit was a delusion? In a recent post launching the next Global Peter Drucker Forum â Performance That Matters â Julia Kirby and Richard Straub pose a series of questions related to what Peter Drucker called the “spirit of performance”. Kirby and Straub ask: how to embed the spirit of performance in organizational culture, in particular in large organizations? [âŠ]
Continue readingParadigm Shift and Corporate Transformation
by Annika Steiber
Any management model aims to maximize three things: Value for the company, Loyalty and productivity among Employees, and Knowledge about, and Solutions for, Usersâ aspirations and true needs. However, the traditional model, based on bureaucracy, a clear distance between the company and its users, and subordinary-superiority between employees, cannot maximize all three objectives at the same time.[âŠ]
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