The Effective Executive

Resumen del libro

The measure of the executive, Peter Drucker reminds us, is the ability to 'get the right things done'. Usually this involves doing what other people have overlooked, as well as avoiding what is unproductive. He identifies five talents as essential to effectiveness, and these can be learned; in fact, they must be learned just as scales must be mastered by every piano student regardless of his natural gifts.

Intelligence, imagination and knowledge may all be wasted in an executive job without the acquired habits of mind that convert these into results. One of the talents is the management of time. Another is choosing what to contribute to the particular organization.

A third is knowing where and how to apply your strength to best effect. Fourth is setting up the right priorities. And all of them must be knitted together by effective decision-making.

How these can be developed forms the main body of the book. The author ranges widely through the annals of business and government to demonstrate the distinctive skill of the executive. He turns familiar experience upside down to see it in new perspective.

The book is full of surprises, with its fresh insights into old and seemingly trite situations.

Biografía del autor

Peter F. Drucker (Viena, 1909 x{0026} x02013; Claremont, California, 2005) está considerado como el mayor pensador y filósofo del management contemporáneo. Nacido en el seno de una familia culta, se doctoró en Derecho Internacional en Alemania pero el advenimiento del nazismo le obligó a emigrar primero a Londres y luego a los Estados Unidos. Compaginó la docencia en la Universidad de Nueva York (1950-1971) con su trabajo de análisis y asesoría del funcionamiento de la empresa privada.Su nombre está indisociablemente unido al de General Motors, su principal objeto de estudio durante décadas. Acuñó términos tan al uso en la actualidad como x{0026} x0201C;managementx{0026} x0201D; (en su significado moderno), x{0026} x0201C;privatizaciónx{0026} x0201D; o x{0026} x0201C;emprendeduríax{0026} x0201D;. Autor de 40 libros, su actividad intelectual fue intensa hasta su muerte, a los 96 años.