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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Decision-Making in the Face of High Risk and Uncertainty
Perspectives on High Performance in the Digital Era
by Lukas Michel
Digitalization fundamentally changes the nature of work and leadership. That’s a huge advantage for those people that get it. But it also challenges human responsibility[…]
Continue readingDrucker Forum Post Scriptum: “Viva la Vida”
by Isabella Mader
What have we learned at the Forum that is most exciting, concerning, surprising?[…]
Continue readingInvesting in Social Glue – Overview, Insights and Key Takeaways
by Mark BĂ©liczkyÂ
Given such a dynamic VUCA and COVID world, businesses and organizations needed to rapidly swerve to a distributed and remote workforce while simultaneously giving considerable thought to the future role of the office.[…]
Continue readingEmployee Power in Turbulent Times: Why Now and How
by Jane McConnell
I have always found the most inspiring roundtable talks to be those where the speakers have diverse perspectives on an issue that is critical, even existential. That was the case for the digital workshop on 10 Nov at the 13th annual Peter Drucker forum.[…]
Continue readingA report on two sessions of the Global Peter Drucker Forum: Can Big Businesses be Humanized and how Fast should you try to Transform your Business?
by Annika Steiber
The 13th Global Peter Drucker Forum again raised business critical questions such as: “Can big businesses be humanized” and “How fast should you transform your business. The answers were: “YES you can humanize a big company “, and “you need to CHANGE your perception on how fast a strategic change of your business will be”.[…]
Continue readingServing People – #6 Revolutionizing Leadership Development
by Janka Krings-Klebe
When the pandemic hit, few companies were prepared for the unpredictability of the threats and related challenges that it brought. The completely unexpected need to switch the internal operating system to fully digital within days ruthlessly exposed the flaws and booby traps hidden in many organizations.erforum.org/blog/?p=3503″>[…]
Continue readingReport on Workshop “Navigating Exponential Growth: Leadership and Decision-Making in Times of Nonlinear Change”
by David Hurst
Acknowledging the pandemic and its exponential features, he then told the story of Hungarian biochemist, Dr. Katalina Kariko and her 30 year-long quest to make RNA molecules in the laboratory and get mRNA into the cells of the body. Her work would form the basis for the successful mRNA vaccines that have been so instrumental in slowing the spread of COVID-19. Drucker would have called her a “monomaniac on a mission”.[…]
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