In the distant past, explorers used local landmarks and stars to navigate. This made it difficult to go to unknown places. Today, many organizations are using best practices, benchmarking, and past successes to guide their way. These are local landmarks. Local to the past[…]
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Whether you live in Dubai, Dubrovnik, Delhi or Dakar, the global pandemic continues to be a shared human experience. We all face restrictions to our movement; we all carry anxieties about the health of our loved ones; and many of us continue to fear an uncertain future. […]
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When I first read PD in the 1970s, I didn’t really get him. The volumes dropping on my desk – Post-Capitalist Society, The New Realities, or, bafflingly, Landmarks of Tomorrow – appeared to have little bearing on management[…]
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Early on, I realized that continuous learning in the workplace is essential to move businesses forward and stay competitive. Yet[…]
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Should you say “thank you” to a robot? This is not a trick question, or a philosophical one. I am interested in the practicalities[…]
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Discussions of the effects of Covid-19 on work, organization and leadership often come down to “home office” and “digitization”. But do these buzzwords capture the multifaceted reality of organizations and how they function?[…]
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The Covid-19 pandemic continues to be one of the biggest challenges in recent history for management and leadership. In March 2020, at the onset of the outbreak, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella declared that as a society we had undergone two years’ worth of digital transformation in two months. Other well-known leaders like Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Cisco’s John Chambers expressed similar sentiments. […]
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The Covid-19 pandemic continues to be one of the biggest challenges in recent history for management and leadership. In March 2020, at the onset of the outbreak, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella declared that as a society we had undergone two years’ worth of digital transformation in two months. Other well-known leaders like Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Cisco’s John Chambers expressed similar sentiments. […]
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