Sage Advice From Drucker

I try to keep up with reading my copy of "The Daily Drucker" which is a compilation of Peter Drucker's work arranged by topic with an idea provided for each day of the year. I share here a particularly insightful essay based on Drucker's work "The Effective Executive."

Five points:

1. Know where your time goes.
2. Focus on outward contributions.
3. Build on strengths.
4. Concentrate on superior performance.
5. Make effective decisions.


From "The Daily Drucker"

Five practices have to be acquired to be effective. Effective executives know where their time goes.  They work systematically at managing the little of their time that can be brought under their control.  Effective executives focus on outward contributions.  Effective executives build on strengths--theirs and others. They do not build on weaknesses.  Effective executives concentrate on superior performance where superior performance will produce outstanding results.  They force themselves to stay within priorities.  Effective executives make effective decisions.  They know that this is a system--the right steps in the right sequence.  They know that to make decisions fast is to make the wrong decisions. Whenever I have found a person who--no matter how great in intelligence, industry, imagination, or knowledge--fails to observe these practices, I have also found an executive deficient in effectiveness.  Peter F. Drucker

Hard to argue...