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Success Matters

5 April 2009

Photo by matsukawa1971 “Until you ‘figure out what success means’ to you personally and to your organisation, leadership is an almost ‘pointless conversation’, Drucker Admonished, Success Built to Last Leadership exists within the context of vision, purpose and goals. You cannot lead unless you know where you’re going. People will not follow someone who is [...]

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Peter Drucker On Leadership

15 April 2008

There is a great article “Peter Drucker On Leadership” discussing the leadership principles of Peter Drucker, some of his ideas from the article that stood out to me are as follows: What Needs to Be Done: “Successful leaders don’t start out asking, ‘What do I want to do?’ They ask, ‘What needs to be done?’ [...]

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20 Insights from Peter Drucker…

9 September 2007

The Marketing Headerhunter.com discusses the 20 Reasons to Love Peter Drucker taken from The Daily Drucker, a collection of Peter Drucker’s most insightful management observations.   The critical question is not “How can I achieve?” but “What can I contribute?” There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.  He alone [...]

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Peter Drucker on Effective Executives

7 August 2007

  In his book “The Effective Executive” Peter Drucker discusses the five essential practices that are hallmarks of effective executives:   Effective executives know where their time goes. They work systematically at managing the little of their time that can be brought under their control. Effective executives focus on outward contribution. They gear their efforts to results rather [...]

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Recommended Reading

12 May 2007

Know-How: The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform from Those Who Don’t “What Peter Drucker’s The Practice of Management and The Effective Executive were to the 20th-century industrial age, Ram Charan’s Know-How is to the 21st-century global digital knowledge worker age. Brilliant, immensely practical, and comprehensive — with almost self-evident prophetic wisdom.” – Stephen [...]

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Talent is Never Enough

5 April 2007

    In John Maxwell’s valuable new book, Talent is Never Enough, he cites Peter Drucker on effectiveness, “There seems to be little correlation between a man’s effectiveness and his intelligence, his imagination, or his knowledge…Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results. By themselves, they only set limits [...]

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Book Review: Success Built to Last

12 February 2007

Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters “Until you ‘figure out what success means to you personally and to your organisation, leadership is an almost pointless conversation” – Peter Drucker Jerry Porras, who co-wrote the original “Built to Last“, teams with successful life coaching company co-founder Stewart Emery and top executive coach Mark [...]

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Fish rot from the head down, as do organisations…

3 December 2006

The more I read about leadership and as I observe leaders in organisations I’ve come to believe the Russian proverb that “A fish rots from the head.” as true and found that it applies equally to organisations. An organisation is the shadow of the top leader. An organisation and a team is only as successful [...]

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Charles Handy’s choice of management gurus

5 November 2006

The Handy Guide to the Gurus of Management is a series that examines the roles and teachings of Business Gurus, with text, audio and an explanation of common management terms, his guide and selection of management gurus are as follows: Introduction – Charles Handy guides you through the lives and works of his choice of [...]

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Peter Drucker On Leadership

23 October 2006

An article from Forbes titled “Peter Drucker On Leadership“, by Rich Karlgaard some of Peter Drucker’s thoughts on leadership that stood out for me from the article are: What Needs to Be Done Successful leaders don’t start out asking, “What do I want to do?” They ask, “What needs to be done?” Then they ask, [...]

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