AFewReflections FromTheGlobal PeterDrucker Forum
Thought Sparks
During my Ph.D. program, I took an Organizational Behavior course with Wharton’s Kenwyn Smith who assigned all of us in his Ph.D. seminar a daunting task – read a book each week authored by a well known management scholar and summarize it in a five page review. I was new to the program and clearly daunted by this, but Kenwyn suggested that it was time I learned to “read like a graduate student.” Talk about tough love!
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Microsoft’sJean PhilippeCourtoison leadership transformation
The story of how Microsoft went from being a knowit-all organization to being a learn-it-all organization has become something of a management legend, making sure the company didn’t miss the next big technological transition and showing how it could once again be relevant to the future of big tech.
Jean Philippe added a little local color commentary that I thought was interesting, suggesting three elements of leadership behavior that in his view help explain the dramatic shift in the company’s fortunes.
GEAppliances’Kevin Nolan
I’d first met Kevin at the World Agility Forum last September, and it was great to hear a slightly different version of his own story. The tale is another remarkable one of a company that had been going nowhere rediscovering a path to growth. He observed that this all happened without a big shift in talent – that the talent was better than the performance of the operation.
Rita McGrath | Thought Sparks
Movingtowardthe edges
One strong impression from the conference was that many of the success stories we heard about came when decisions were pushed to where the context is most clear – often at middle management levels.
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