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Tag Archives: Peter Drucker
Culture eats your structure for lunch
Peter Drucker allegedly said that culture eats strategy for breakfast. If strategy is for breakfast then your structure is for lunch. Culture will overcome any structural chart or any reorganisation. Companies fail because they believe that a restructure will change … Continue reading
Are you aware of how your solution has unintended consequences?
In trying to manage, it is important to start by understanding the issue or the problem before trying to solve it. As Peter Drucker wrote, an effective executive asks, “What needs to be done?” Often times, a manager may believe … Continue reading
Posted in change managment, culture, leadership, management
Tagged Chief executive officer, Effective Executive, Parking lot, Peter Drucker, Problem solving, Senior management
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The rise of the networked managers: sense making in the social media age.
The manager’s role is changing. The new organisation, connected and networked, requires managers to deal with internal and external issues. The required skill set is changing. In the past, the focus may have been on service delivery based on top … Continue reading
What you allow to interrupt you defines your priorities
We often hear management gurus advising us that effective and successful leaders know how to prioritise their work and the work of their company. To an extent, they are correct. What is left unsaid and not discussed is how those … Continue reading
Hierarchies are networks! Hyperlinks do not subvert hierarchies.
For many who believe in the web as way to transform society, politics, and human life, my blog may come as a shock. There is no evidence to support the claim that hyperlinks subvert hierarchies. When you check the evidence, … Continue reading
Using your company’s services like a customer: your chance to learn and change?
In a recent blog post, Dan Lee had an excellent suggestion that gets to the heart of local government improvement. On point 12 of the post, he suggested that “Use local government services like a resident would to see how … Continue reading
Posted in change managment, culture, customer service, innovation, local government, management
Tagged Peter Drucker, Robert McNamara
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