What makes an effective executive?

The measure of the executive, Peter F. Drucker reminds us, is the ability to "get the right things done." This usually involves doing what other people have overlooked as well as avoiding what is unproductive. Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge may all be wasted in an executive job without the acquired habits of mind that mold them into results.

Drucker identifies five practices essential to business effectiveness that can, and must, be learned:

Managing time

Choosing what to contribute to the organization

Knowing where and how to mobilize strength for best effect

Setting the right priorities

Knitting all of them together with effective decision-making

Ranging widely through the annals of business and government, Peter F. Drucker demonstrates the distinctive skill of the executive and offers fresh insights into old and seemingly obvious business situations.

　　《卓有成效的管理者》论述了现代企业组织的管理者应具备的素质和才能。管理者要做到卓有成效，光靠天资聪明、工作努力是不够的，还要有创造力、创新精神和组织能力，要善于利用时间、人才以及其他资源，要善于决策。

作者简介

Peter F. Drucker is considered the most influential management thinker ever. The author of more than twenty-five books, his ideas have had an enormous impact on shaping the modern corporation. Drucker passed away in 2005.

　　彼得·F.德鲁克（Peter F.Drucker）被尊称为“管理学之父”，1909年生于维也纳，在奥地利及英国完成教育。1929年起，担任报社的海外通讯记者。同时也为伦敦一家国际银行做经济评论工作。1939年起，到美国担任一家英国银行及保险集团企业的经济分析员，不久就成为美国几家大企业和跨国公司最知名的管理顾问。此后在纽约大学管理研究所教书二十余年。2005年11月11日，德鲁克在加州家中逝世，享年95岁。

　　“你想做的是什么事？”是当今管理学上耳熟能详的德鲁克式的问句。德鲁克著述颇丰，其著作涉及工业社会的本质、企业管理的基础知识和技术变革等多个方面，见解独到精辟，每一部著作都为管理学树立了里程碑，同时也奠定了他“当代世界最不朽的管理思想大师”的地位。

精彩书评

"Long recognised in business circles as a voice to listen to"

——Harvard Business Review

"it would be difficult to overestimate his contribution to management" thinking

——Financial Times

"The dean of this country''s business and management philosophers."

——Wall Street Journal

"An imaginative book, arguing, for instance, for reliance on intuitions rather than ''facts''...a survival manual on how to escape organization traps."

——Christian Science Monitor