The Effective Executive

Peter F. Drucker, The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done, HarperCollins Publishers, January 3, 2006.

齊若蘭譯，杜拉克談高效能的5個習慣，遠流，2009

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:

1. Managing time
2. Choosing what to contribute to the organization
3. Knowing where and how to mobilize strength for best effect
4. Setting the right priorities
5. Knitting all of them together with effective decision-making

Peter F. Drucker, What Makes an Effective Executive, Harvard Business Review, June 2004.

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