The Effective Executive

The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

By: Peter F. Drucker

Narrated by: Jim Collins, Timothy Andrés Pabon

A handsome, commemorative edition of Peter F. Drucker’s timeless classic work on leadership and management, with a foreword by Jim Collins.

What makes an effective executive?

For decades, Peter F. Drucker was widely regarded as ""the dean of this country’s business and management philosophers"" (Wall Street Journal). In this concise and brilliant work, he looks to the most influential position in management—the executive.

The measure of the executive, Drucker reminds us, is the ability to ""get the right things done."" This usually involves doing what other people have overlooked as well as avoiding what is unproductive. Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge may all be wasted in an executive job without the acquired habits of mind that mold them into results.

Drucker identifies five practices essential to business effectiveness that can—and must—be mastered:

• Managing time;
• Choosing what to contribute to the organization;
• Knowing where and how to mobilize strength for best effect;
• Setting the right priorities;
• Knitting all of them together with effective decision-making

Ranging across the annals of business and government, Drucker demonstrates the distinctive skill of the executive and offers fresh insights into old and seemingly obvious business situations.

Best book on leadership I've read yet

Instead of reading the many contemporary books on leadership, pick up this old timeless treatise that is exceedingly relevant over 50 years after it was first published.

Convicciones

Un libro bastante técnico que no sigue una sola línea de una historia, más bien mezcla el resultado de mucho análisis con distintas anécdotas del mundo de los negocios. Termina brindando una mirada con bastante convicción acerca de un tema muy amplio y variable como lo es la toma de decisiones. Es un libro que hay que consumir para seguir agregando y fortaleciendo conceptos del mundo empresarial.

Efficient and effective

Some of this I’d heard before but this summary together with case studies is a complete picture. And the humility of giving principles over prescriptions is a welcome difference to modern “growth hack” books. No cheerleading. Just useful.

great stuff. I enjoyed it a lot. good advice.

very good booj. will listen again soon. easy logical advice. very applicable to my life

classic

Something every manager should read. Timeless concepts with good examples. Good foreword as well. Get it.

Such a great book!

I feel like the 4 hour work week borrowed a lot from this book, but did not do as good a job. This book gives the right amount of time to the most difficult tasks facing any executive. I’ll be reading it again I am sure.

Great tips on how to be a better leader

Great tips to improve influence productivity and effectiveness as an executive. Need to read again. Add it to the list of must reads.

Some good stuff herein

...good decision making process and lots of good general info. Its a classic. Rise of the knowledge worker.

Amazing audiobook

This is my first time reading anything from Druker. And I am hooked. I have learned so much!!!

Still excellent

I really liked it, but since the book is old now some of the stuff is outdated. Specifically the discussion about computers. still an excellent book.