At the Management Summit Lisbon 2025, Richard Straub opened with a Druckerian provocation: management must keep asking what kind of management society needs next. The event itself was built to do that; “Value Creation”, its guiding theme, aimed to transform conventional management, emphasizing how human relationships, trust, and structural agility can drive organizational vitality.[…]
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At the World Management Agility Forum that took place in Lisbon in September, a panel of founders and managers of successful decentralized companies shared their insights. Lars Brüning described how chemical giant Bayer is undergoing full-scale restructuring, defying the organizational charts that are at best matrix-shaped: he visualizes each department as a cycle that self-manages itself, setting its own goals, strategies, and plans. The focus is on consumer experience. […]
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In the late afternoon of December 1, 2023, in the Hofburg Palace of Vienna, the Global Peter Drucker Forum committed itself to the pursuit of a new management paradigm, “The Next Management”, over the next five years. It came at the end of an eventful three-day Forum dedicated to Creativity and Resilience, where not only practicing or academic thought leaders, but also the younger generation and artists took the stage. […]
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