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The effective executive therefore knows that to manage his time, he first has to know where it actually goes.
Peter F. Drucker • The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (Harperbusiness Essentials)
Unless a decision has “degenerated into work” it is not a decision; it is at best a good intention.
Peter F. Drucker • The Effective Executive
Business strategist Peter Drucker wrote that what gets measured, gets managed.
Howard Jacobson • Sick to Fit: Three simple techniques that got me from 420 pounds to the cover of Runner’s World, Good Morning America, and the Today Show
It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.
Peter F. Drucker • Managing Oneself
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
Peter F. Drucker • The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (Harperbusiness Essentials)
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight. —HENRY R. LUCE, PUBLISHER AND FOUNDER OF TIME INC.
Josh Kaufman • The Personal MBA: A World-Class Business Education in a Single Volume
The fewer people, the smaller, the less activity inside, the more nearly perfect is the organization in terms of its only reason for existence: the service to the environment.
Peter F. Drucker • The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (Harperbusiness Essentials)
Warren Bennis Santa Monica, California November 1996
Patricia Ward Biederman • Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration
Drucker wrote a seminal piece in the July 25, 1989, Wall Street Journal called “Sell the Mail Room.” Every executive should take it to heart.