Book Titles

The Effective Executive
The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

By Peter Drucker

Year Published: 2017
ISBN-13: 978-0062574343
Categories: Effectiveness, Executives, Leadership

141 Quotes Found

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The Effective Executive:

All one can measure is performance. And all one should measure is performance.

1848

The Effective Executive:

The effective executive knows that to get strength one has to put up with weaknesses.

1871

The Effective Executive:

Altogether it must be an unbreakable rule to promote the man who by the test of performance is best qualified for the job to be filled.

1897

The Effective Executive:

Staffing the opportunities instead of the problems not only creates the most effective organization, it also creates enthusiasm and dedication.

1900

The Effective Executive:

…every people-decision is a gamble.

1940

The Effective Executive:

To focus on weakness is not only foolish; it is irresponsible.

1943

The Effective Executive:

A superior owes it to his organization to make the strength of every one of his subordinates as productive as it can be.

1943

The Effective Executive:

…effective executives make the strengths of the boss productive.

1943

The Effective Executive:

…there is nothing quite as conducive to success as a successful and rapidly promoted superior.

1969

The Effective Executive:

All of us are “experts” on other people and see them much more clearly than they see themselves.

2001