In his sixty-five-year consulting career, Peter F. Drucker, widely regarded as the father of modern management, identified eight practices that can make any executive effective. Leadership is not about charisma or extroversion. It's about these practices: Effective executives ask, "What needs to be done?" They also ask, "What is right for the enterprise?" They develop action plans. They take responsibility for decisions. They take responsibility for communicating. They focus on opportunities rather than problems. They run productive meetings. And they think and say "we" rather than "I."...
In his sixty-five-year consulting career, Peter F. Drucker, widely regarded as the father of modern management, identified eight practices that can...
Peter Drucker is widely regarded as the father of modern management, offering penetrating insights into business that still resonate today. But Drucker also offers deep wisdom on how to manage our personal lives and how to become more effective leaders. In these two classic articles from Harvard Business Review, Drucker reveals the keys to becoming your own chief executive officer as well as a better leader of others. -Managing Oneself- identifies the probing questions you need to ask to gain the insights essential for taking charge of your career, while -What Makes an Effective...
Peter Drucker is widely regarded as the father of modern management, offering penetrating insights into business that still resonate today. But Dru...
You want the most important ideas on management all in one place. Now you can have them--in a set of HBR's 10 Must Reads, available as a 7-volume paperback boxed set or as an ebook set. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles on change, leadership, strategy, managing people, and managing yourself and selected the most important ones to help you maximize your own and your organization's performance. The HBR's 10 Must Reads Boxed Set includes seven bestselling collections: HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership (ways you can transform yourself from a...
You want the most important ideas on management all in one place. Now you can have them--in a set of HBR's 10 Must Reads, available as a 7-volume pape...