The effective executive: the definitive guide to getting the right things done.

Drucker, Peter F., 1909-2005

ISBN 10: 0060833459 / ISBN 13: 9780060833459

Published by Harper Business, New York, 2006

About this Item

PAPERBACK, original cover price $16.99, near fine. DRUCKER, PETER F. The effective executive: the definitive guide to getting the right things done. New York: Harper Business, 2006, xxiii, 178pp., . Cover design by Clinton Van Gemert. ISBN 9780060833459 5.80.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The effective executive: the definitive guide to getting the right things done.
• Publisher: Harper Business, New York
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060833459
• ISBN 13: 9780060833459
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Near Fine
• Weight: 5.8 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Decision-Management-Organization

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Peter F. Drucker is considered the most influential management thinker ever. The author of more than twenty-five books, his ideas have had an enormous impact on shaping the modern corporation. Drucker passed away in 2005.