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The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done QUOTES

The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done QUOTES

1 " It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem - which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday. "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

2 " Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results. "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

3 " Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective. "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

4 " Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time. "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

5 " Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors. "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

6 " If there is any one “secret” of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time. "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

7 " Effectiveness must be learned. "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

8 " Converting a decision into action requires answering several distinct questions: Who has to know of this decision? What action has to be taken? Who is to take it? And what does the action have to be so that the people who have to do it can do it? The first and the last of these are too often overlooked—with dire results. "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

9 " If the executive lets the flow of events determine what he does, what he works on, and what he takes seriously, he will fritter himself away “operating.” He may be an excellent man. But he is certain to waste his knowledge and ability and to throw away what little effectiveness he might have achieved. What the executive needs are criteria which enable him to work on the truly important, that is, on contributions and results, even though the criteria are not found in the flow of events. "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

10 " The focus on contribution by itself supplies the four basic requirements of effective human relations: communications; teamwork; self-development; and development of others. "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

11 " All military services have long ago learned that the officer who has given an order goes out and sees for himself whether it has been carried out. At the least he sends one of his own aides—he never relies on what he is told by the subordinate to whom the order was given. Not that he distrusts the subordinate; he has learned from experience to distrust communications. "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

12 " plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure. "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

13 " The people who get nothing done often work a great deal harder. In the first place, they underestimate the time for any one task. They always expect that everything will go right. Yet, as every executive knows, nothing ever goes right. The unexpected always happens—the unexpected is indeed the only thing one can confidently expect. "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

14 " a decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw, "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

15 " The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement. "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

16 " One cannot hire a hand—the whole man always comes with it, "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

17 " Is this still worth doing?” And if it isn’t, he gets rid of it so as to be able to concentrate on the few tasks that, if done with excellence, will really make a difference in the results of his own job and in the performance of his organization. "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

18 " By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else. Here, therefore, is the one area where weakness is a disqualification by itself rather than a limitation on performance capacity and strength. "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

19 " A well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine. "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

20 " The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job. "

― Peter F. Drucker , The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done