The Feedback
Although we consider every moment spent at the Dx to be a moment well spent, we recognize that not every moment spent online is a moment well spent.
Trivial Pursuit
Not surprisingly, we feel that applying Peter Drucker’s timeless insights to current events is immensely helpful. But we can’t deny that we do so online—and that’s a place that many people (younger ones in particular) believe is becoming a big time-waster. In fact, according to a new Gallup poll, 59% of Americans ages 18 to 29 say they ...
Connecting the Dots
Phalana Tiller talks with Sherry Turkle and Lisa Gansky about how connectedness through technology is impacting our lives and our organizations.
Bringing On the Funk
We’re celebrating just a little today after learning that our radio show was recognized by the Public Radio Exchange (PRX) as part of its 2011 Zeitfunk Awards. PRX handed out Zeitfunk Awards in 18 different categories, and an episode of the show was cited as being the year’s 18th most viewed piece among all of ...
The Drucker Exchange to Post Blog Items in Six Languages
Hello ¡Hola Olá こんにちは 您好 안녕하세요 नमस्ते We’re proud to announce that once a month, the Drucker Exchange will feature select posts in six languages: Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish. These posts, translated from the English-language originals, will appear on the first Friday of every month beginning today and are available by clicking on each ...
We’re Untraditional, But Not THAT Untraditional
Even a place as fast-changing as Silicon Valley has some sacred traditions. Mark Pincus, chief executive of Zynga, a company that makes social games including FarmVille, found this out the hard way. “Mr. Pincus . . . came under scrutiny for his role in asking some early employees to renegotiate their stock compensation packages,” The Wall Street ...
A Prophet for a New Workplace
Not a day goes by when some publication, somewhere in the world, doesn’t quote Peter Drucker. We read all of these articles with interest, but rarely flag any on the Drucker Exchange. A piece in Saturday’s New York Times by Quentin Hardy, on how technology is changing the way we work, merits an exception because it so ably connects the ...
Meet Urtak
The questions below are the start of an Urtak—a tool for rapidly collecting opinions. We’ve seeded this Urtak with a few questions, and we invite you to add your own. To ask your fellow Dx readers about what you think is important, create a free Urtak account then enter a question below. You don’t need an account ...
A New Breed of Share-holders
Washington wants us to be shopping more and saving less (at least in the near-term), but Americans actually seem to be going in another direction. Writing recently in The Atlantic, Sara Horowitz, founder of the nonprofit Feelancers Union, suggests that a new model of “collective consumption,” involving thrift and shared resources, is being forged. (It’s a phenomenon that we’ve explored ...
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