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November 11, 2022 2022

Evolving Ecosystem Guidance
by Bill Fischer

“Water! Build your organizations so that they move like water.”
This advice from Haier’s Chairman Emeritus, Zhang Ruimin, began a search for useful guidance for treating ecosystem engagement as a strategic asset for the future. Ecosystems are an ageless phenomenon, newly rediscovered for commercial purposes, by James F. Moore, in 1993. Once multi-geographic trade began, the ancient world was held together by interwoven threads of economic activity. As these linkages became more reliable, ecosystems bloomed.[…]

October 13, 2021 13th Global Peter Drucker Forum

Common Beliefs, Not Common Behaviors [1]
by Bill Fischer

What is leadership, if not strategy and culture; setting the direction to which the organization must move, and instilling behaviors that will provide the best chance of making the journey?[…]

November 20, 2020 #rapporteur2020 / 12th Global Peter Drucker Forum

Led by data, algorithms and AI? by Bill Fischer

Imagine a world where it is acknowledged that unknown unknowns are the primary triggers of economic and social change; where literally everything is recognized to be an “accident” (in the statistical sense of having a finite probability of occurring); where humans and machines coexist on teams where work has a high-knowledge content, immersed in unprecedented volumes of data; and where organizational and contextual complexity can only become more complex[…]

July 9, 2020 12th Global Peter Drucker Forum

Leadership in a Post-Covid World: Where Learning Beats Knowing
by Bill Fischer

After a hundred years, we are once again fighting a global viral war that is seemingly everywhere and ever voracious. As with the Spanish Flu pandemic, once again we’ve been found wanting in our response, and deficient in our leadership. What’s worked, social distancing and hand-washing, were relatively simple techniques born decades ago.[…]