Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Alcoa CEO: Traditional career path is "dead"

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As seen on 60 minutes website November 11, 2012 7:08 PM Klaus Kleinfeld, CEO of aluminum company Alcoa, tells Byron Pitts that workers ...
Monday, October 29, 2012

Economic development work approach

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This posting is an introduction to the economic development aspect of rlaexp.com http://rlaexp.com/eco.html is a doorway to a large mul...
Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Time Management: GTD vs. PFD

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David Allen's GTD is about getting things done. Peter F. Drucker is about getting the right things done and that means ignoring a lot ...
Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Startups and America's Future

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Recently I've seen several web articles promoting startups as the key to the future. Here's my startup thinking . Knowledge and T...

rlaexp.com lives — the future is between the ears

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rlaexp.com provides brainroads for creating foundations for future directed decisions — what you need to know before you decide to do or not...
Saturday, June 30, 2012

What do customers value?

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The question, What do customers value?—what satisfies their needs, wants, and aspirations—is so complicated that it can only be answered by ...
Saturday, May 19, 2012

Inside Drucker's Brain

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The most accessible guide to the essential ideas of "the inventor of modern management". In late 2003, ninety-four-year-old Pet...
Thursday, May 17, 2012

A view of the education landscape

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Recent opinions: Some hard lessons about college costs ABC This Week in Politics — Roundtable II Has a College Education Ceased to Prov...
Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Lasting Value: Lessons from a Century of Agility at Lincoln Electric

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Joe's Journal: On Bringing More Knowledge to Manufacturing A while back, I wrote the book Lasting Value, which featured the stories of...
Saturday, May 5, 2012

Technology as human work

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From chapter three of Technology, Management and Society by Peter Drucker Man, alone of all animals, is capable of purposeful, nonorgani...
Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Barriers to Innovation

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The first barrier is the general confusion over innovation and entrepreneurship. There are people who know something about it and people w...
Tuesday, April 24, 2012

If it says innovation it probably isn't

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Ads that contain the words innovative or innovation are not likely to be either. Real innovations don't need or want this language — ...
Monday, April 23, 2012

Some Drucker thoughts on corporate misconduct

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The case against Lehman Brothers and  Wal-Mart probe could cost some executives their jobs . From Chapter 14 — "The Mystique of the ...
Sunday, April 22, 2012

1 in 2 new graduates are jobless or underemployed

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Note to Class of 2012: More than half of young college graduates now jobless or underemployed Long, long, long before their senior year st...
Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Possibility

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Edward de Bono says: Educational establishments totally underestimate the importance of "possibility."  Two thousand years ...
Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Leadership

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There is so much leadership blah, blah, blah (snake oil) and then there is Peter Drucker . Leadership is lifting a person's vision to...
Thursday, April 12, 2012

Drucker, marketing, branding

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In  Tiny Product Change, Huge Sales Impact: The Billion Dollar Branding Lesson from Morton Salt the author states: "Peter Drucker has...
Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Finding your own treadmill

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LTIS is a bread crumb trail for people who don't want to be on somebody else's treadmill. The world is moving away from pre-indu...

Forbes: Why Most Brainstorming Sessions Are Useless

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See Forbes article  Why Most Brainstorming Sessions Are Useless My response: This article raises a number of issues: group work vs. ind...
Monday, April 9, 2012

Is there a payoff from top-team diversity?

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In a McKinsey Quarterly article they explored " Is there a payoff from top-team diversity? "   When a diverse group interacts th...

An alternative to GTD

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Just working from the flow of events or off of the top of one's head (brainstorming) is the road to yesterday . Here's a different a...

Google keyword searches

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For some strange reason Google is not paying attention to the search keywords on my site. So I'm trying this:   tlnkwtime  :::  tlnkwr...
Monday, March 19, 2012

Porridge words

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Porridge words are rather meaningless words. It is precisely because they are meaningless that they are so immensely useful in thinking. ...
Thursday, March 15, 2012

Messing around inside the creative mind

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The sharp-brained outlook can never establish new ideas because it does not mess around, never makes mistakes, and is completely trapped by...
Thursday, October 27, 2011

Congressional Reform Act of 2011

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I don't know who wrote the following but it sure sounds good: 1. No Tenure / No Pension. A Congressman collects a salary while in off...
Saturday, September 17, 2011

More fiddling, more disappointments …

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An article on a major local news site summarized statements by the CEO of an organization promoting startups. The CEO stated that our rela...
Monday, September 12, 2011

Who innovates? Who is an entrepreneur?

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See my innovation summary page. How does this compare with stuff you see in the news? Amazon link :  Innovation and Entrepreneurship ...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Staying Open

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From Management Alert: Don't Reform—Transform! by Mike Kami The higher the executives' positions, the less education they seem t...
Monday, August 22, 2011

The CEOs astounding balancing act

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From The Definitive Drucker … I've touched on failure, so I should mention success. Six of Business Week's top ten fastest-grow...
Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Consumerism is the "shame of marketing."

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Despite the emphasis on marketing and the marketing approach, marketing is still rhetoric rather than reality in far too many businesses...

Corporate Loyalty

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Published 1994 Large organizations were proud of their employees' loyalty, dedication, and morale. These were considered the key a...
Tuesday, August 9, 2011

The Transformation

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"EVERY FEW HUNDRED YEARS in Western history there occurs a sharp transformation. We cross what in an earlier book, I called a "d...

Practical Thinking

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Recognition rightness is very important because it is really the basis of all action. As soon as you can recognize a situation you can t...

Knowledge worker challenges

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Knowledge workers tend to identify at least as much with their knowledge discipline as they do with the organization in which they are empl...
Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Living in more than one world

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How Peter Drucker's Wisdom Can Inspire and Transform Your Life Overview Synthesizing management legend Peter Drucker 's simpl...
Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Last post with iBlog on .mac

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June 14, 2010 I entered my final post to my iBlog hosted on .mac iDisk.