When leaders consider the one thing they could do differently today to help their organization be future prepared, where do they start? […]
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Eröffnungsrede von Richard Straub
Unser digitales Sommerforum ist ein Meilenstein auf dem Weg zur Konferenz, die uns im November in der Wiener Hofburg persönlich zusammenführen wird. Beide Veranstaltungen firmieren unter einem gemeinsamen Titel: Performance that matters – Leistung, auf die es ankommt. […]
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 – performance that matters. Moving the needle on the performance of an enterprise has always been a challenge – and in today’s world it is increasingly complex. […]
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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, “At other conferences, I speak, and here, I learn.” […]
Continue readingAlignment Between People – the Invisible Opportunity
by Lindsay Uittenbogaard and Giles Slinger
Typically, people think of ‘alignment’ in literal terms: to ‘line things up’. 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? […]
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 – Performance That Matters – 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? […]
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, Users’ 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.[…]
Continue readingDecision-Making in the Face of High Risk and Uncertainty
by Nick Hixson
In intensely competitive markets, many decision processes are being sped up or handed over to number-crunching machines. Where should we still be deeply deliberative? Four excellent panellists ably moderated by Margaret Heffernan were invited to discuss this very relevant topic.[…]
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