HANS STOISSER
Claiming our Humanity – Managing the Digital Age … … is the theme of the Global Peter Drucker Forum 2015 (#GPDF15), taking place in Vienna on November 5th and 6th, 2015. High ranking speakers and participants, from Charles Handy, Henry Mintzberg, Tammy…
In the run-up to the Global Peter Drucker Forum, taking place in Vienna on November 5 and 6, 2015, a nicely featured blog series builds up momentum. A very insightful blogpost comes from Vlatka Hlupic: Let’s get the future right this time…
Watch out. Times of transition bear the phenomena of tipping points. The Global Peter Drucker Forum, taking place in Vienna on November 5 and 6, 2015, is building up such a critical mass of ideas, theories, people and networks in new…
Dambisa Moyo, bestselling author and a big voice when it comes to abandon development aid for Africa, comes to the Global Peter Drucker Forum to Vienna on November 5 and 6, 2015. In her blogpost at the Drucker Blog, Dambisa rises concern that digitalization…
To be a manager is not really “in” in the moment. Managers are very much associated with obscenely high bonuses and at the same time with mass lay-offs of employees. Managers make our societies more unequal and more unsustainable. No wonder nobody thinks of…
What we today know as “agile practices” have been developed in the software industry. Today “software is eating the world” (Wall Street Journal, 2011) and meanwhile is dominating all other industries. But on its way up, software companies went through big crises. Much had been promised to…
by Hans Stoisser (with contributions from Lukas Michel) THIS BLOGPOST WAS FIRST PUBLISHED AT THE DRUCKERFORUM’S BLOG “Enough! Enough of the imbalances that is destroying our democracies, our planet, and ourselves,” writes the Canadian management thinker Henry Mintzberg.“ A…
“Enough! Enough of the imbalances that is destroying our democracies, our planet, and ourselves,” that is the first sentence the Canadian management thinker Henry Mintzberg wrote in his new book “Rebalancing Society”. He refers to our “unbalanced society”, where the…
“In the last 20 years the system seems to have been broken down“, says Clayton Christensen, one of the world’s top experts on innovation and growth. “Our toxic mindsets make us believe that efficiency matters most“, reckons Gary Hamel. Roger Martin sees the…
Very interesting, the article McKinsey just has re-published: The Manager and the Moron from Peter Drucker, written in 1967 (!). In the 50 years or so up to 1967 the economy has’t really changed, writes Peter Drucker. Same industrialized countries, same…
Society consists of different spheres, each of it with its own logic and “culture”. During the last decades the economic structure started to dominate all other spheres until it almost completely disconnected from society. This might be seen as the root…
I’ve just got a link from McKinsey, the management consulting firm, to a recent statement of Bill George, Harvard Business School professor and former Medtronic CEO, on rethinking capitalism. “I don’t subscribe to the notion that companies do exist to create…