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By
Peter Drucker, Clarke Professor of Social Science, Peter F Drucker Graduate Management School, Claremont Graduate University, California
Description
The measure of the executive, Peter Drucker reminds us, is the ability to 'get the right things done'. Usually this involves doing what
other people have overlooked, as well as avoiding what is unproductive.
He identifies five talents as essential to effectiveness, and
these can be learned; in fact, they must be learned just as scales must be mastered by every piano student regardless of his natural
gifts. Intelligence, imagination and knowledge may all be wasted in an executive job without the acquired habits of mind that convert
these into results.
One of the talents is the management of time. Another is choosing what to contribute to the particular organization.
A third is knowing where and how to apply your strength to best effect. Fourth is setting up the right priorities. And all of them must
be knitted together by effective decision-making.
How these can be developed forms the main body of the book. The author ranges widely
through the annals of business and government to demonstrate the distinctive skill of the executive. He turns familiar experience upside
down to see it in new perspective. The book is full of surprises, with its fresh insights into old and seemingly trite situations.
Audience
Managers and CEOs; Practitioners on management development programmes/MBA; Management consultants; Entrepreneurs.
Contents
Effectiveness can be learned; Know thy time; What can I contribute?; Making strength productive; First things first; The elements of decision-making;
Effective decisions; Conclusion: Effectiveness must be learned;
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 200 pages, publication date: MAY-2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-8507-8
ISBN-10: 0-7506-8507-7
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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