Taking Care of Business
We at the Drucker Exchange don’t like to offer un-researched facts or figures, but we are pretty sure that Andrew Mason, ousted earlier this year from Groupon, the business he founded, is the first ex-CEO in history to …
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Measurement Myopia
“If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.”
This maxim ranks high on the list of quotations attributed to Peter Drucker. There’s just one problem: He never actually said it.
When to Share Your Baby
Sometimes you have to let go, but it sure hurts when it’s your own company.
The Uber Challenge
Rick Wartzman writes about Uber, the automobile-for-hire service that finds itself surrounded by controversy.
What Peter Drucker Would Be Reading
Recent selections from around the web that, we think, would have caught Peter Drucker’s eye.
All in the Family
The Tabard Inn, a family-and-employee-owned small restaurant and hotel in Washington D.C., has charmed visitors for decades. Right now, however, it has a management problem.
Immigration Altercation
Peter Drucker wrote that he considered the pressures of immigration to be as inescapable as the law of gravity.
Archivist’s Pick: Drucker on the Air
With a doctorate in international law, Peter Drucker wasn’t an economist by training, and he sometimes had a few harsh words for the dismal science.
Getting Over Overhead
Want to give money to a worthy nonprofit? Then please do not—repeat, do not— focus on “overhead.”
What Peter Drucker Would Be Reading
Most of us know at least some of the rules for leading meetings well, so why are so many company meetings still horrible?
How Many Days Would It Take to Carve This Post in Stone With a Toothpick?
Google is famous for its brain-teasing job interview questions. How would you survive as a 5-millimeter-tall person in a blender?
Payday Disclosure
When Peter Drucker was writing about executive compensation in the 1970s, his purpose was to puncture some of the myths about it.
Why Be Afraid of the Big Bad MOOC?
Do massive open online courses—widely known by their acronym, MOOCs—portend the end of institutions of higher education as we’ve known them?
Are Cognitive Workers in Oversupply?
Make sure you go to college—because these days, you may well need a diploma to flip burgers.
What Peter Drucker Would Be Reading
If you’re willing to go any length to obtain Jay-Z’s new album, “Magna Carta Holy Grail,” three days before anyone else does, then …