Year: 2015

Where is management heading? Reflections from the Global Drucker Forum 2014.
by Xavier Marcet

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The Global Drucker Forum of Vienna has become a major international convention for management and covers some of the main references of global management meetings. Held in memory of Peter Drucker it pays tribute to his inspiration. The alliance of the Forum with the Harvard Business Review guarantees global impact. Also, there was presence of prominent personalities from The Financial Times, The Economist and the BBC. Drucker defined modern management from a very humanistic perspective which continues to inspire the event in an extraordinary way, bringing together the best in the world to discuss the future of management with the ability to make changes. These notes on the contents of the Global Drucker Forum were […]

Think more deeply, act more persuasively
by Professor Vlatka Hlupic

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Just over two years ago Rick Wartzman noted in a Drucker Society Europe blog the numerous initiatives in recent years based around the evidence showing that a humane and thoughtful approach to leadership and management is actually better for corporate performance than more exploitative or short-termist approaches. Appreciative Inquiry, Conscious Capitalism and Shared Value, among others, all received a mention.   Though he approved of all these developments, he struck a cautionary note:   “Does this flurry of activity add up to more than a bunch of scattered conferences and white papers? Are we actually witnessing the beginnings of a social movement?”   This raises a challenge for those of us who write about the […]

The Great Transformation of the Organization Needs the How
by Dan Pontefract

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This blog was originaly published on the HuffPost blog.   Billed as “The Great Transformation”, its work was cut out for itself from the moment you could register online. A conference paying homage to the brilliance of Peter Drucker has now become an annual calendar fixture not to be missed. The 6th iteration of the Global Peter Drucker Forum — recently held in Vienna, naturally — has arguably become the TED or Davos of all leadership conferences. But could we shift into an era of “managing our way to prosperity,” as the conference sub-title suggested?   Could we achieve “The Great Transformation”?   Richard Straub, the Forum’s chief architect, asked a rhetorical question in his […]