Move over, Shakespeare. “To be or not to be” is no longer the question of the moment. Diana Renner [link] and Steven D’Souza [link] have a better question for this maniacally active business and social world. The two authors (Steven is also one of our...
Is the business world due for a revolution? That was the idea behind a brilliant closing address by Charles Handy [link] given last week at the 9th Global Peter Drucker Forum in Vienna [link]. I sensed a degree of restlessness among the...
Robots are not as new as you might think, but the threat of robots replacing human workers has been a persistent topic of discussion since at least the 1980s. While Leonardo da Vinci had the concept of a mechanical knight in 1435 [link], the latest “oh...
Is quarterly capitalism holding companies back from getting to their next state of development? This is not a new question nor a new issue in the world of management. Many thinkers have slammed the well-established practice of business leaders doing anything necessary...
“What we need now is a different kind of education,” says Pasi Silander, the development manager in Helsinki, Finland. He adds that education should now be aimed “to prepare people for working life.” The changes in education in Finland were...
Hundreds attended. News was made. And I left the World Knowledge Forum in Seoul, Korea, last week, with some strong impressions about what the organisational world is searching for today. First, the backdrop: this was the 15th such forum, and the theme was...
