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HarperBusiness
The Effective Executive
The definitive guide to getting the right things done.
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- Author
- Peter F. Drucker
- Publisher
- HarperBusiness
- Published
- January 2006
- Pages
- 0
- Format
- Paperback
- Size
- Standard
- Language
- English
The Library Essay
Effectiveness Is a Habit, Not a Gift
Peter Drucker's premise, laid down in 1967, is that effectiveness in knowledge work is not a temperament one is born with but a small set of practices anyone can learn: know where your time actually goes, aim at contribution rather than effort, build on strengths, do first things first and second things not at all, and make few decisions, slowly, at the right level of principle.
Drucker had been studying managers since the 1940s and coined the term knowledge worker, and this short book is his distillation of what the productive ones do differently. It has stayed continuously in print and on the reading lists executives hand their successors, largely because its advice is checkable against one's own calendar by Friday.
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