Organizational Performance
A More Honest Productivity Scorecard
Output, quality, time and capital belong in the same conversation. A useful scorecard makes improvement visible without rewarding the transfer of cost or risk.
The Performance IssueA global perspective. A practical advantage.
The leadership imperative / October 2026
Performance is
a leadership
discipline.
Stronger judgment. Better execution. The choices that build an organization ready for what comes next.
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Cash Is an Operating Discipline
The Supply Chain That Can Change Its Mind
The Manager Is a Performance Investment
Ideas for the decisions ahead
The executive perspective
The management agenda
Make performance repeatable
Performance
The Execution Gap Begins Between Departments
A practical operating model connects the customer promise to the decisions, capacity and cash required to keep it. The organizational chart is only the beginning.
Leadership
The Manager Is a Performance Investment
As the management role absorbs more demands, executive teams need a clearer bargain: fewer competing priorities, usable authority and a disciplined standard for coaching.
Leadership
Turn Learning Spend into Operating Capability
The strategic return on development comes when employees can perform work the business needs. That requires practice, protected time and a demanding test of transfer.
The global business environment
Opportunity rewards
local intelligence.
Regional growth is only the beginning. Turn a market thesis into a commercially credible plan.
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From the editor
The discipline behind
lasting performance.
A perspective on leadership, organizational performance, and the global conditions shaping our choices.
Mark Ellis, Ph.D.
Read the letterCapital, risk & competitive advantage
The choices that matter
Capital
Cash Is an Operating Discipline
Working capital improves when commercial promises, inventory decisions and payment processes work together. A quarter-end collection campaign reaches only part of the problem.
Global Business
Europe’s Carbon Test Moves into the Operating Model
Reliable product data, clear ownership and commercial discipline are becoming central to the way exposed companies serve European markets.
Strategy
Power Is Becoming a Location Decision
Energy competitiveness belongs in capacity planning, operating design and the board’s capital conversation.
Conversations worth having
The global agenda
12–18 October
Bangkok, Thailand
IMF–World Bank Annual Meetings
Event details4–5 November
Vienna, Austria
Global Peter Drucker Forum
Event details18–20 November
Singapore
Singapore FinTech Festival
Event details
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Original research, institutional reports, and selected articles to inform your next consequential decision.
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