The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done

ACTION POINT: Make sure your nonprofit organization has rigorous tests and yardsticks to measure performance. The Age of Discontinuity

All organizations must be capable of change. We need concepts and measurements that give to other kinds of organizations what the market test and profitability yardstick give to business. Those tests and yardsticks will be quite different.

4 January Organizational Inertia

ACTION POINT: Come up with a few examples of why management, its competence, its integrity, and its performance, is so decisive to the free world.

3 January Management Is Indispensable

ACTION POINT: Identify the major trends in your market that have already appeared. Write a page on their likely longevity and impact on your life and organization.

Innovation and Entrepreneurship,

“future that has already happened”—and to develop a methodology for perceiving and analyzing these changes.

2 January Identifying the Future