Report on Workshop ā€œNavigating Exponential Growth: Leadership and Decision-Making in Times of Nonlinear Changeā€
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 ā€œmonomaniac on a missionā€.[ā€¦]

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A Fierce Old Story: Fighting a Plague with Common Decency
by David Hurst

The rats gave the first clue: they staggered onto the streets, emitted a drop of blood from their noses and died in droves. As their bodies piled up, newspapers agitated, and citizens complained ā€“ why was the sanitation department not removing them? The rodents were collected and cremated and the citizens returned to their preoccupation with working hard and getting rich.[ā€¦]

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Report on the Round Table ā€˜Peter F. Drucker and the Society of the Futureā€™
by David Hurst

Panelists: Chair: Richard Brem, Senior Advisor, Peter Drucker Society of Europe, Peter Paschek, Management Consultant, Timo Meynhardt, Professor for Business Psychology and Leadership, HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Verena Ringler, Curator, Erste Foundation Aaron Barcant, Independent Researcher, Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy The round table began with Richard Brem introducing the panelists and each of them summarizing why Peter Druckerā€™s work and vision mattered to them. Druckerā€™s vision Drucker always argued that oneā€™s worldview mattered to oneā€™s understanding of oneā€™s role and contribution in society and oneā€™s ability to manage oneself and others. American philosopher Thomas Sowell, describes a vision as a ā€˜pre-analytic, cognitive actā€™ that helps simplify an overwhelmingly complex reality. Think [ā€¦]

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