The rats gave the first clue: they staggered onto the streets, emitted a drop of blood from their noses and died in droves. As their bodies piled up, newspapers agitated, and citizens complained – why was the sanitation department not removing them? The rodents were collected and cremated and the citizens returned to their preoccupation with working hard and getting rich.[…]
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Report on the Round Table ‘Peter F. Drucker and the Society of the Future’ by David Hurst
Panelists: Chair: Richard Brem, Senior Advisor, Peter Drucker Society of Europe, Peter Paschek, Management Consultant, Timo Meynhardt, Professor for Business Psychology and Leadership, HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Verena Ringler, Curator, Erste Foundation Aaron Barcant, Independent Researcher, Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy The round table began with Richard Brem introducing the panelists and each of them summarizing why Peter Drucker’s work and vision mattered to them. Drucker’s vision Drucker always argued that one’s worldview mattered to one’s understanding of one’s role and contribution in society and one’s ability to manage oneself and others. American philosopher Thomas Sowell, describes a vision as a ‘pre-analytic, cognitive act’ that helps simplify an overwhelmingly complex reality. Think […]
Continue readingWading through the swamp: the radical power of ecosystems-as-processes by David Hurst
The respected management scholar, Donald Schön, began his 1987 book, The Education of the Reflective Practitioner, as follows: “In the
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“Warm hearts allied with cool heads seek a middle way between the extremes of abstract theory and personal impulse” Stephen
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‘The arts of life…turn out to possess their own special methods and techniques…Bad judgement here consists not in failing to
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The theme of the 2017 Global Drucker Forum to be held in Vienna later this year is “Growth & Inclusive
Continue readingBrexit: Crisis and Opportunity – Nothing Lasts Unless Incessantly Renewed
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Multilayered complex systems are stable when the large and/or slow processes govern through constraint the smaller, faster ones. Sudden change
Continue readingManagement Wisdom: Recovering the Tension Between the Hard and the Soft
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In The Witch Doctors: Making Sense of the Management Gurus (1996, revised 2011) John Micklethwait (former editor-in-chief of The Economist,
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