Research Catalog

Title

The effective executive : the definitive guide to getting the right things done / Peter F. Drucker.

Author

Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005

Publication

• ©2017
• New York, NY : HarperBusiness, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]

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Details

Description

xxix, 206 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"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 work, 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 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."--Jacket.

Subject

• Executive ability
• Leadership
• Management
• Executives > United States
• Decision making
• management
• decision making
• Executives
• United States

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

Foreword: Ten lessons I learned from Peter Drucker -- Introduction: What makes an effective executive? -- 1. Effectiveness can be learned -- 2. Know thy time -- 3. What can I contribute? -- 4. Making strength productive -- 5. First things first -- 6. The elements of decision-making -- 7. Effective decisions -- Conclusion: Effectiveness must be learned -- Afterword: Don't tell me you had a wonderful meeting with me.

ISBN

• 0062574345
• 9780062574343

LCCN

2017465049

OCLC

• ocn951070565
• 951070565
• SCSB-9197553

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library