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. […]
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Opening 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. […]
Continue readingWhat is performance that matters?
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 readingTurbulence ahead: Why the future favours the bold
by Terence Mauri
The father of management thinking Peter Drucker famously said: “The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not turbulence itself, but to act with yesterday’s logic”. […]
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