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:

…organizations are held together by information rather than by ownership or command.

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The Effective Executive:

Good executives focus on opportunities rather than problems.

445

The Effective Executive:

But problem solving, however necessary, does not produce results. It prevents damage. Exploiting opportunities produces results.

446

The Effective Executive:

Above all, effective executives treat change as an opportunity rather than a threat.

447

The Effective Executive:

Effective executives put their best people on opportunities rather than on problems.

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The Effective Executive:

Making a meeting productive takes a good deal of self-discipline.

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The Effective Executive:

Good follow-up is just as important as the meeting itself.

497

The Effective Executive:

Effective executives know that they have ultimate responsibility, which can be neither shared nor delegated.

509

The Effective Executive:

Listen first, speak last.

513

The Effective Executive:

…insights become effectiveness only through hard systematic work.

525