A Year With Peter Drucker

You will make much more progress in your career by working to improve your strengths than by trying to turn your weaknesses into strengths.

“Are you challenged enough?” “Does the organization make use of your strengths or what you can do? All together as a group of human beings, “does the organization constantly challenge and make you more ambitious in terms of contribution?” “Are you acutely suffering from creative discontent?”

Drucker argues that the purpose of a business is to create a customer and to satisfy human needs. Marketing thus becomes the primary function of a business and the lens through which the entire business should be viewed.

your organization grounded in responsibility, integrity, and service? Does it bring out whatever strength is present in each person? Does it foster a sense of community and citizenship?

Are you a part of a functioning community in your organization where your citizenship, sense of community, and personal responsibility are being developed? If you are not, what is missing?

integrity.

Effective leadership and management of society’s organizations is therefore the alternative to tyranny and the remedy for preserving responsible freedom and equality of opportunity.

the greatest contribution; they will have to learn to develop themselves.

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