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Exploiting Demographic Change in Your Organization: Many thought that the apparent insanity of the post-World War II generation was due to having missed the character-building challenges of the Depression and the sacrifices of World War II and that they were therefore spoiled by having life too easy and missing lessons wrought by pain and struggle. Not so, according to Drucker. He explained this period as a predictable phenomenon-- a shift in demographics. read more
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Drucker’s Billion Dollar Reality Test: Drucker discovered that all executives needed to understand and apply the correct principles of marketing research in HR, manufacturing, sales, management and virtually all business areas. Let’s say that you’re an HR manager and need to develop a radical new procedure to handle new and complex human resource procedures in our company. You can get it completely wrong even if your basic idea is right on target. Think that this can’t happen? read more
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Marketing And Selling May Be Adverserial: “Marketing and selling are not necessarily complementary and may even be adversarial.” I had heard Drucker make some rather unusual statements during the two years that I had been his student, but this certainly had to be one of the most astonishing. Yet he was right. read more
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Success by Abandoning Success: Drucker’s concept of abandonment comes from the dynamics of knowledge advancement and requires a single imperative for every organization: management of change has to be instilled at the cellular level, that is, in the organization’s very structure. read more
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Doing the Right Thing is More Powerful than You May Think: This company took responsibility, and as a result of the integrity of its actions, sales of this product, once dismissed by every advertising and marketing expert queried, began a steady climb only a few months after the product’s return to the marketplace. read more
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Supply Side Innovation: If you apply the principles of supply side innovation it can lead to your promotion, an increase in compensation, and be of great benefit to your organization. read more
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The Secret of Demand Side Innovation: Would you like to come up with innovations that mark you as an extraordinary performer? Drucker knew how and he explained exactly how to do it. read more
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Drucker’s “New Certainties": Though not clearly defined, business is supposed to be run for an ill defined conglomeration of interests including customers, employees, shareholders, and society. The only big question is whether this should be short term for gain in stock price, or longer term for future growth. read more
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Drucker on the Danger of Professionalism -- and Its Cure: “Society will eventually pay a terrible price for this abomination,” said Drucker, about the devotion of managers to a management “profession” and not the primary welfare of the organizations which were entrusted to them. And of course, he was right. read more
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How to Avoid Failure by Abandoning Success: You can’t avoid failure completely. Sometimes you’re going to make mistakes—and if it’s not you, someone else will make them for... read more
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