About The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done
What makes an effective executive? The measure of the executive, Peter F. 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 mold them into results. Drucker identifies five practices essential to business effectiveness that can, and must, be learned: Ranging widely through the annals of business and government, Peter F. Drucker demonstrates the distinctive skill of the executive and offers fresh insights into old and seemingly obvious business situations.
- Complete Title: The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (Harperbusiness Essentials)
- Format: Paperback
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 208
- Publication Time: January 3, 2006
- Publisher: Harper Business
- ISBN: 0060833459
- ISBN13: 9780060833459
About Peter F. Drucker
Peter F. Drucker
Peter Ferdinand Drucker was a writer, management consultant and university professor. His writing focused on management-related literature. Peter Drucker made famous the term knowledge worker and is thought to have unknowingly ushered in the knowledge economy, which effectively challenges Karl Marx’s world-view of the political economy. George Orwell credits Peter Drucker as one of the only writers to predict the German-Soviet Pact of 1939.
The son of a high level civil servant in the Habsburg empire, Drucker was born in the chocolate capital of Austria, in a small village named Kaasgraben (now a suburb of Vienna, part of the 19th district, Döbling). Following the defeat of Austria-Hungary in World War I, there were few opportunities for employment in Vienna so after finishing school he went to Germany, first working in banking and then in journalism. While in Germany, he earned a doctorate in International Law. The rise of Nazism forced him to leave Germany in 1933. After spending four years in London, in 1937 he moved permanently to the United States, where he became a university professor as well as a freelance writer and business guru. In 1943 he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. He taught at New York University as a Professor of Management from 1950 to 1971. From 1971 to his death he was the Clarke Professor of Social Science and Management at Claremont Graduate University.
Reviews The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done
Andrew Canavan
Stop reading boring blogs and books about productivity and go straight to the source of many of these ideas. Then, stop thinking about being productive and go do something…
Janet
I used to be a large reader of Jack Welch practices at GE, until I read that he looked to Drucker. I’ve been reading Drucker and re-reading Drucker ever since. He is the master at learning how to be “…
Gene Babon
No one in a managerial role should be allowed to manage others without having read at least one book from Peter Drucker. Drucker is widely acclaimed as The Father of Modern Management and published 39…
James
I’m pretty sure that if we’d ever met in real life I’d have punched Peter Drucker in the face. This book epitomises everything that I hate about productivity porn. It should be subtitled the definitiv…
Greg
Adding this book to my list of must-reads for anyone working in corporate America. In brief:1. Know where your time goes; relentlessly prune unproductive activities.2. Know the contribution you’re exp…
Laura Noggle
Good reminder of the basic fundamentals of time management.“The people who get nothing done often work a great deal harder. In the first place, they underestimate the time for any one task. They alw…
Tõnu Vahtra
“Don’t tell me that you had a wonderful time reading this book, tell me what you are going to do differently on Monday”. The higher up the organization, the less time he has under his own control (sen…
Mark Dunn
Know Thy Time – take a time inventory & eliminate “need not be done”, “could be done by others”, and “wasting other’s time”. – prune time wasters – lack of systems –> crisis – overstaffing -…
Jacque
I find Drucker to be really repetitive. There were quite a few sentences that didn’t really add anything, and should have been taken out…