Peter Drucker On Leadership - Forbes.com 

Ideas Peter Drucker On Leadership Rich Karlgaard, 11.19.04, 6:00 AM ET NEW YORK - Peter F. Drucker was born 95 years ago today--can it be possible?--in Vienna. The universally known writer, thinker and ... lecturer now is nearly deaf and doesn't get around like he used to. He stopped giving media interviews about a year ago. But in late October, Drucker granted an exception to Forbes.com at the urging of Dr. Rick Warren , the founder and head of the Christian evangelical Saddleback Community Church in Lake Forest, Calif. The Drucker-Warren relationship may surprise many readers, but it goes back two decades, to when the young minister came to Drucker for advice. Under Drucker's tutelage, Warren's own success as a spiritual entrepreneur has been considerable. Saddleback has grown to 15,000 members and has helped start another 60 churches throughout the world. Warren's 2001 book, The Purpose-Driven Life , is this decade's best seller with 19.5 million copies sold so far and compiling at the   [More...] [Less...]

OGC - Business strategy 

Business strategy Purpose: To describe the business direction for the future (short and medium term as minimum; ideally covering longer term as well) in terms of a vision, strategic themes and a portfolio ... of planned changes to which every programme and project contributes. Fitness for purpose checklist: The strategic direction exists, as a set of strategic themes which are capable of providing a starting point for the planning of the required set of change programmes? Is there a set of strategic change initiatives which are consistent with the vision and the strategic themes for the business unit, are described in sufficient detail to enable subsequent prioritisation, selection and sequencing? Is the nature of the description of the change initiatives also such that implications of their influence on overall strategic direction can be interpreted? Is there a prioritised set of change programmes which clearly shows the interrelationships and dependencies between the change programmes th   [More...] [Less...]

LetterFlyer.qxd [pdf]

1 Outlook 2007 Number 3 The journal of high-performance business A coherent technology ecosystem—from infrastructure, architecture and applications to standards and support services—creates a virtuous ... cycle by making adoption of a new technology easier and less risky. As interest builds, more enterprises are likely to adopt that technology; this, in turn, strengthens the ecosystem and leads to lower costs. Soon, with large-scale adoption, the new ecosystem changes the basis of competition, which finally forces laggards (if they are still around) to adopt as well, completing an industrywide transformation. Too often, however, companies take a buyer- centric view of technology, and look for a magic bullet to solve a specific business prob- lem or a failsafe specific business opportunity This article originally appeared in the September 2007 issue of Intormation Technology Eight trends that are redefining IT By Kishore S. Swaminathan Converging trends are creating a new technology ecosyst   [More...] [Less...]

Interview: Mike Lynch, founder of Autonomy - Software - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com 

During the turn of the century technology boom years, Autonomy was something of a poster child for UK high-tech. A lot has changed since then in terms of the fluctuating health of the sector and the nature ... of the search industry - not least of all because of the rise of Google. But Autonomy founder Mike Lynch - who remains CEO at the company - is convinced Google will not repeat its consumer success in the enterprise market and believes the search industry is on the verge of great things. "Unstructured information" remains at the heart of Autonomy's approach. Lynch claims 80 per cent of information within the enterprise is unstructured and with the sheer volume of information ballooning, on the back of a move towards greater compliance and new data formats such as multimedia files, the need is greater than ever to be able to search this data quickly and effectively. Applications serving this growing market are what Lynch refers to as "second generation" search technologies. Google, he   [More...] [Less...]

Technology Strategy Board 

The Technology Strategy Board is a business-focused organisation dedicated to promoting technology-enabled innovation across the UK. Our vision: for the UK to be seen as a global leader in innovation and ... a magnet for technology-intensive companies, where new technology is applied rapidly and effectively to create wealth. Established as an executive body at arm's length from Government in July 2007, the organisation is sponsored by the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS). We invest in research and development; build partnerships between business, research and Government to address major societal challenges; and run a wide range of knowledge exchange programmes to help innovation flourish. With a leading role in UK innovation, we help to build and maintain the country's global competitiveness. To find out more: Knowledge Transfer Networks Research and development Careers   [More...] [Less...]

Asia’s Rising Science and Technology Strength [pdf]

Time Boxing is an Effective Getting Things Done Strategy 

34 Responses to “Time Boxing is an Effective Getting Things Done Strategy” Says: July 29th, 2006 at 12:32 am […] Time Boxing is an Effective Getting Things Done Strategy - Dave Cheong […] Until its done ... at Kyun.org Says: July 30th, 2006 at 2:47 pm […] Time Boxing as Dave Cheong calls it has worked for me each and every time. The basic idea behind this is to fix a time limit to what you are working on. At the end of that time limit, stop all tasks. Review what you have done, mark them as done and mark all the remaining items as unfinished. Then setup another time slot for all those things in the unfinished list. Repeat the process. […] Creating a Better Life Says: July 30th, 2006 at 11:01 pm The Personal Development Carnival - July 30, 2006 Welcome to the latest edition of the Personal Development Carnival. Let’s get right to the growth! — Gleb Reys presents Recover From Personal Development Failure posted at Personal Development Ideas Blog. David Maister presents Are You D… Bob   [More...] [Less...]

Management on BNET 

What can you do to make sure employee enthusiasm doesn't drop off once your new hires fall into a daily routine? This collection of ... Tags: leadership , management , motivation , Motivation , BNET Staff ... Running Effective Teams Managing remote teams, developing employees, and dealing with turnover all require planning and coordination. Learn how to make your team more efficient in five ... Tags: Team Management , Management , BNET Staff , team Two managers can be equally knowledgeable, yet one may be wildly successful while the other mediocre at best. What's the difference? The ability to ... Tags: Tools & Techniques , BNET Staff , decisions , decision-making , leadership , management Federal Express is just the latest company to face big IRS fines for mishandling contractors. Here's how to manage ICs the right way. Tags: Employee , Contractor , Driver , Internal Revenue Service , Worker , Free Trade , Financial Planning , Finance , Lynn Haber , independent contractor , hiring , IRS ,   [More...] [Less...]