Tag: Isabella Mader

2024

The Productivity Paradox of 21st Century Knowledge Work
By Isabella Mader

1994:

“Can I ask you something?”

“Sure! Great to see you! Come in, have a seat. Coffee?”

2024:

“Just a quick question…”

” Sorry, no time! Can you email me about it…?”

What happened? In his Management Challenges for the 21st Century, Peter Drucker noted that a key accomplishment of the 20th century was a fiftyfold increase in the productivity of manual labor. He predicted that the critical contribution of management in the 21st century would be to similarly enhance the productivity of knowledge work. Two decades into the 21st century, however, we are far from realizing this vision.[…]

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#rapporteur2020 / 12th Global Peter Drucker Forum

Shaping State Capacity, Geopolitics and World Economics:
Leading change on a wider stage – how? by Isabella Mader

Long story short: In the end we’ll need both, a new system and leadership that builds state capacity. The Covid crisis revealed a capacity divide between East and West and accelerated already existing international economic trends. We may be in something like a “The Emperor has no clothes” moment: no leader and no amount of leadership can compensate for a fundamentally dysfunctional system that rewards the results we’re currently getting, as Katherine Gehl put it.[…]

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#rapporteur2019 / 11th Global Peter Drucker Forum

Cities As Social Ecologies
by Thomas Madreiter & Isabella Mader

The cities of the future we imagined in the 1970ies were about flying cars and beautiful skyscrapers. Where are we now? At micromobility with e-scooters? Where did it all begin? If the Renaissance began in Florence, Smart City began in Silicon Valley. While we know San Francisco as an ideal place to test the latest Smart City tech gadgets their City Government took an interesting decision recently: you now have to demonstrate which public value your technology will bring to the city. What value does your tech bring to the city Cecile Maisonneuve, President of the think tank Fabrique de la Cité, kicked off the Session on “Cities as Social Ecologies” at the 11th Global […]

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#rapporteur2019 / 11th Global Peter Drucker Forum

Sparking small fires at the Drucker Forum Barcamp
by Isabella Mader

Not a classic panel, nor the speakers you’d expect at a conference like the Global Peter Drucker Forum. The motto: growth happens where there is access to opportunity. The format is targeted at younger-generation participants from two camps: the winners and finalists of the Peter Drucker Challenge, an essay contest for students and young entrepreneurs, and participants in the Talent Award program for corporate career talents nominated by their employers. The shortened ‘Barcamp’ format used within the Global Peter Drucker Forum sees pitches by participants, followed by an audience vote to select the most popular topics that will then be presented in a short talk. Ample discussion time is provided thereafter. To start off the […]

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