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:

Few things make an executive as effective as building on the strengths of his superior.

2003

The Effective Executive:

The assertion that ‘somebody else will not let me do anything’ should always be suspected as a cover-up for inertia.

2016

The Effective Executive:

…making strength productive is as much an attitude as it is a practice. But it can be improved with practice.

2045

The Effective Executive:

In every area of effectiveness within an organization, one feeds the opportunities and starves the problems.

2048

The Effective Executive:

…the standard of any human group is set by the performance of the leaders.

2051

The Effective Executive:

Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.

2066

The Effective Executive:

The more one can concentrate time, effort, and resources, the greater the number and diversity of tasks one can actually perform.

2091

The Effective Executive:

The people who get nothing done often work a great deal harder.

2115

The Effective Executive:

…as every executive knows, nothing ever goes right.

2116

The Effective Executive:

The unexpected always happens—the unexpected is indeed the only thing one can confidently expect.

2116