Peter Drucker’s body of work on business philosophy and strategy has yet to be surpassed, in my view.

One of my favourite Drucker quotes which I refer to regularly is:
“There are two functions, and two functions only, of any business: innovation and marketing”.

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Professor John Kotter answers questions on why he wrote A Sense of Urgency in this Harvard Business clip.

Harvard Business School Professor John Kotter is a world authority on leadership and change. In his newest work, A Sense of Urgency, Kotter shows what a true sense of urgency in an organization really is, why it is becoming an exceptionally important asset, and how it can be created and sustained within organizations.

••• Click here to watch this clip … In the clip he discusses:

• Why do we need a sense of urgency?

• What is the benefit of having a sense of urgency?

• What is the difference between activity and urgency?

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“The most important failure was one of imagination. We do not believe leaders understood the gravity of the threat”.

This is one of the key findings of the United States 9/11 commission’s 576-page report. The report has urged sweeping changes to how the intelligence services operate after finding that the government had “failed to protect American people” from the 11 September 2001 attacks.