Why we need agile Europeans in Africa “Many Europeans still treat Africans like children”, said James Shikwati, a Kenyan born intellectual, at a panel discussion in Hamburg, showing how European behavior is perceived in Africa. In the same discussion I argued that Africa and Europe…
Read More Africa and Europe at a crossroad? – “Yes, they are”, I argued in a panel discussion in Hamburg on December 2, 2015. “And Europe should better watch out not to drift apart. In its own interests.” Five forces are describing…
Read More 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…
Read More 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…
Read More 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…
Read More 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…
Read More 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…
Read More 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…
Read More 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…
Read More “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…
Read More “We are on your side”, Lord Risby, member of the British House of Lords, said to the delegation from Ukraine. It was quite a gathering on March 3rd, 2015, in Vienna. Bernard-Henry Lévi, philosopher and one of the founders of…
Read More “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…
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