What kinds of companies have bounced back better from the pandemic years? New evidence shows itās the ones who had already invested time and energy in building their capacities for innovation.[ā¦]
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Creativity Amid the Chaos
The performance that really matters
by Simon Caulkin
When 30 of the biggest names in management convened in California in June 2008 to spend two days āinventing the future of managementā, one professor observed that we knew plenty already: what was really needed, he said, was an implementation as much as an innovation engine. [ā¦]
Continue readingOn re-reading Peter Drucker
by Simon Caulkin
When I first read PD in the 1970s, I didnāt really get him. The volumes dropping on my desk ā Post-Capitalist Society, The New Realities, or, bafflingly, Landmarks of Tomorrow ā appeared to have little bearing on management[ā¦]
Continue readingOpening Salvos: Is leadership rising to the occasion? by Simon Caulkin
The year 2020 has put us through a lot, but in doing so created settings for effective leaders to have real impact. Who has stepped up to the challenge and who has stumbled: What broad lessons in leadership can we take away from this annus horribilus?[ā¦]
Continue readingPreparing leaders for tomorrow: revisiting Druckerās lost art of management by Simon Caulkin
If the 20th was the management century and the 21st the century of leadership, as GDPF2020 proposes, what does that mean for management development and education? What are the challenges, and how can they be met? This was the subject of a two-part pre-conference panel workshop under the title Preparing Leaders for Tomorrow: Revisiting Druckerās lost art of management, led by Ulrich Hommel, Director of Business School Development at EFMD GN and Professor of Corporate and Higher Education Finance at EBS Business School. The challenges to leaders are indeed formidable, not least the emergence of inter-institutional ecosystems involving complex feedback mechanisms which make outcomes for participants difficult to predict and harder to manage. An important [ā¦]
Continue readingCompanies exist to do the best for the system they are part of by Simon Caulkin
Why do companies exist? The question rears its head again with the recent Business Roundtable (BRT) re-statement of corporate purpose,
Continue readingThings that canāt last, donāt. Why economic change is a priority
by Simon Caulkin
Brexit and now Trump are the delayed detonations of the unexploded bombs left behind by the Great Crash of 2008-2009.
Continue readingStaying Alive
by Simon Caulkin
In Don Siegelās 1956 film shocker Invasion of the Bodysnatchers a California doctor becomes convinced that his patients are being
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