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:

Direct results always come first.

1378

The Effective Executive:

An organization that is not capable of perpetuating itself has failed.

1390

The Effective Executive:

An organization… has to provide today the men who can run it tomorrow. It has to renew its human capital. It should steadily upgrade its human resources.

1390

The Effective Executive:

People adjust to the level of the demands made on them.

1396

The Effective Executive:

The executive who sets his sights on contribution raises the sights and standards of everyone with whom he works.

1397

The Effective Executive:

Commitment to contribution is commitment to responsible effectiveness.

1409

The Effective Executive:

…the higher the position an executive holds, the larger will the outside loom in his contribution.

1455

The Effective Executive:

…objectives set by subordinates for themselves are almost never what the superior thought they should be.

1540

The Effective Executive:

The typical institution of today has an organization problem for which traditional concepts and theories are totally inadequate.

1562

The Effective Executive:

People in general, and knowledge workers in particular, grow according to the demands they make on themselves.

1587