The Effective Executive Author:Peter F. Drucker The measure of the executive, Peter 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. Mr. Drucker identifies five habits or practices as essential to effectiveness, and these can be learned. In fact, they must be learned, a... more »s 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 them into results.
One of the practices is the management of time. Another is choosing what to contribute to the particular organization. A third is knowing where and how to mobilize srength for 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 Effective Executive is full of surprises, with its fresh insights into old and seemingly obvious situations.« less