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COVID-19 has created an opportunity to experiment with remote work. Managers need to orient themselves to leading remote teams. Communication, accountability and individualization can drive performance

Though practical examples rather than theoretical, this article has a core thesis: Corporate economic performance rests on knowledge and its applications. Done correctly, knowledge increases corporate wealth, which, in turn, increases societal wealth.

As a 10-year board member of the Peter Drucker Foundation, contributor Marshall Goldsmith had many opportunities to listen to Drucker, the world’s top authority on management. During this time, Drucker taught him some very important lessons about life and leadership - here's the greatest one.

This article discusses the need for two kinds of meetings–namely: (1) a problem meeting and; (2) an opportunity meeting. The opportunity meeting identifies what opportunities should be exploited to enable the organization to survive and thrive in today’s business climate and beyond!

Are people really afraid of change? Not in the way that many people think. Contributor Robert Swaim provides insight from Drucker with why many change efforts are resisted or why some feel people are afraid of change.

We are in uncertain times. The world is not what it once was just six months ago. As such, organizations must be ready to meet the needs of today and tomorrow with a risk management strategy of the future.

Peter Drucker’s 70+ years career of teaching, writing and consulting makes him an ideal guide to approaching organizational learning in these tenuous times. In this article, contributor Bruce Rosenstein shares 25 Drucker quotes from books and articles by and about him.

There are two essential ingredients both managers and employees must address in order to create OKRs that actually work and move your company forward.

Senior-level financial executives and CEOs are prone to reduce costs without any clear idea of what to slash and what to keep, an all-too-common reaction to sudden economic turnabouts. Proactive self-assessment by L&D organizations begins with mission-critical questions and ends with action.

With so many stimuli competing for attention, any hope for making it through the day without our brains feeling like scrambled eggs rests on being more conscious of how you parse attention over specific tasks. Here are three ways to keep your focus flowing.

How can you tell who is worthy of becoming a manager in your company? By studying 2.5 million manager-led teams in 195 countries, Gallup isolated the human attributes that predict managerial success. See three actions leaders can take to help managers excel, no matter what natural talent they have.

Every senior-level executive/manager has three distinct jobs–namely: (1) an economic job; (2) an entrepreneurial job and;(3) an administrative job. Very senior-level executives are now forced to do very serious evaluations of the true strengths of those put in charge of the business of survival.