The Effective Executive - Peter F. Drucker

The Effective Executive

ByPeter F. Drucker

  • Release Date: 2009-10-06
  • Genre: Self-Improvement
Score: 4
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From 111 Ratings

Description

A handsome, commemorative edition of Peter F. Drucker’s timeless classic work on leadership and management, with a foreword by Jim Collins.

What makes an effective executive?

For decades, Peter F. Drucker was widely regarded as "the dean of this country’s business and management philosophers" (Wall Street Journal). In this concise and brilliant guide to managing oneself, he looks to the most influential position in management—the executive.

The measure of the executive, Drucker reminds us, is the ability to "get the right things done." This usually involves doing what other people have overlooked as well as avoiding what is unproductive. Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge may all be wasted in an executive job without the acquired habits of mind that improve productivity and mold them into results.

Drucker identifies five practices essential to business effectiveness that can—and must—be mastered:
Managing time;Choosing what to contribute to the organization;Knowing where and how to mobilize strength for best effect;Setting the right priorities;Knitting all of them together with effective decision-making
Ranging across the annals of business and government, Drucker demonstrates the distinctive skill of the executive and offers fresh insights into old and seemingly obvious business situations.

Reviews

  • Inspirational

    5
    By denis108
    This is one of the books that every intellectual worker must read in order to grow professionally and personally.
  • Classic

    4
    By MisterKenny
    This work is full of solid descriptions of effective executive behavior. The specific examples are a window to the past and do date the book, but the principles are timeless. Drucker's text is tightly focused and well organized. I think this would be a great read for a new manager or an experienced leader looking to regain his/her focus, priorities and principles. This book conveys Drucker's wisdom so clearly and simply that it has universal appeal for leaders in virtually any field. I have read many books on leadership and self-development and believe his book to be among the best. It is well worth your money and time.

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