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Meet My Next Group of Coaches!

Marshall Goldsmith

Whitney Johnson – Thinkers 50 award-winning Management Thinker 2015-17, Disruptive Innovation expert, author Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. General Thomas Kolditz – Founding Director Doerr Institute Rice University, formerly head of Leadership Development West Point.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Frances Hesselbein – Former CEO, Girl Scouts of America and Peter Drucker Foundation. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker.

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Why Do We Spend So Much Developing Senior Leaders and So Little Training New Managers?

Harvard Business Review

During the last five years of my corporate management career, I had a great deal of leadership development. Along with many other executives, I attended talks by noted management authors, I went to (often lengthy) team-building exercises, and I participated in discussions on different leadership styles. ” — Peter Drucker.

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

It is hands-down the most popular leadership book of all time. He demonstrates that the ability to build trust is THE key leadership competency of the new global economy. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (2002). Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. Drucker passed away in 2005.

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China Needs a New Generation of Dreamers (and New Dreams)

Harvard Business Review

To quote Peter Drucker, “The purpose of an organization is to make ordinary people do extraordinary things.” For those operating in China, this is, indeed, a quandary. China Disruptive innovation Global business' One lesson on how to address this question comes, ironically, from an old-economy company.

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The Core Incompetencies of the Corporation

Harvard Business Review

Deep change, when it happens, is belated and convulsive, and typically requires an overhaul of the leadership team. Strangely, most CEOs seem resigned to this fact, since few, if any, have tackled the challenge of innovation with the sort of zeal and persistence they’ve devoted to the pursuit of operational efficiency.