The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done
Peter F. Druckeramazon.com
The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done
Peter Drucker and his book The Effective Executive, as well as Alain de Botton’s (page 486) How Proust Can Change Your Life.
Timothy Ferriss • Tools Of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career
Reid Hoffman • 2 highlights
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To be effective, every knowledge worker, and especially every executive, therefore needs to be able to dispose of time in fairly large chunks. To have small dribs and drabs of time at his disposal will not be sufficient even if the total is an impressive number of hours.
Peter F. Drucker • The Effective Executive
2. Effective executives focus on outward contribution. They gear their efforts to results rather than to work. They start out with the question, “What results are expected of me?” rather than with the work to be done, let alone with its techniques and tools.
Peter Drucker • The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (Harperbusiness Essentials)
the executive is, first of all, expected to get the right things done.