Global Peter Drucker Forum BLOG

October 15, 2020 12th Global Peter Drucker Forum

Beyond the headline race: how the media must lead in a polarized world
by Alexandra Borchardt

When US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg succumbed to cancer recently, the headline race was on once again. Instead of pausing for a moment to honor a great personality for her leadership and stamina in the quest for justice, most of the news media didn’t miss a beat. Who would President Donald Trump nominate as her successor, and how would that reshape American society? Reporting instantly took second place to speculation and opinion, drowning out the announcement of the 87-year-old’s death in a sea of noise[…]

October 9, 2020 12th Global Peter Drucker Forum

We need to have hard conversations on the value of AI
by Mark Esposito, Terence Tse and Josh Entsminger

These months have proven to be emblematic of the dangers of a hyperconnected world. Coronavirus cases continue to grow and grow fast, and asymmetries rise around the world at a pace we may have not imagined when 2020 started. […]

October 7, 2020 12th Global Peter Drucker Forum / Richard Straub

Needed: leadership that hits Covid nail on the head
by Richard Straub

It is high time to rethink our parameters for dealing with the pandemic. What we need are leaders with judgment and common sense[…]

October 2, 2020 12th Global Peter Drucker Forum

Forget the Black Swan: focus on the Rhino
by Miriam Meckel

In the midst of the perfect storm, driven by a global pandemic and the concomitant economic crisis, managers have to deal with an abundance of challenges popping up day to day. “No time for strategy and planning” is a frequently overheard claim in executive offices and boardrooms these days. Many leaders like to address the pandemic as a “Black Swan”. A nice try to excuse oneself from thorough and critical thinking[…]

September 30, 2020 12th Global Peter Drucker Forum

Leadership Everywhere Means Reversed Leadership
by Jane McConnell

Reversed leadership makes organizations more resilient. The need for resilience has never been greater than now. As Peter Drucker said, “The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic.” How can management go beyond yesterday’s logic? By practicing reversed leadership[…]

September 21, 2020 12th Global Peter Drucker Forum

Covid-19 and the Hazards of Experts
by Rod Collins

One of the most important developments in the field of psychology is the discovery that the workings of human thinking often enable inefficient and sometimes irrational expert judgments. Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky observed that the human brain is a paradox. While it is capable of producing highly developed analytical and creative intelligence, it is also prone to make apparently senseless errors[…]

September 15, 2020 12th Global Peter Drucker Forum

Leadership Everywhere: A Job to Be Done
by Alex Adamopoulos

This year’s Drucker Forum abstract, Proclaiming the Century of Leadership, shares one of Drucker’s most famous quotes – “management is doing things right, but leadership is doing the right things”[…]

September 7, 2020 12th Global Peter Drucker Forum

A wake-up call for humane leadership
by Vlatka Hlupic

This was the year everything changed. A tiny virus, arguably not even a life form, had a bigger global economic impact than the banking collapses a decade earlier. Ways of working have been transformed. Remote working has gone from being a fringe activity mostly confined to globally dispersed teams, to being accepted as the norm across whole sections of the economy. Sectors such as hospitality and aviation have suffered sharp falls in business, furloughed staff and redundancies[…]