The Effective Executive
Drucker explains business effectiveness as a result of three core practices and suggests that effectiveness isn’t only something that can be learned, it must be developed. There are three takeaways from this book.
Find out where your time goes
As an executive, your time is most precious and most sought-after. Colleagues, subordinates, and superiors all these people will vie for your time using favours, proposals, requests, questions, clarifications, and advice. It’s up to you, therefore, to guard your time and allocate it selectively.
Focus on contribution
Speaking of output, effective executives know to focus on contribution. Instead of concentrating solely on efforts, they are occupied with.
Put first things first
Any top performer knows that there will always be more tasks to do than there is enough time to do it all. The question, therefore, is, “Which areas deserve concentration in order to generate outstanding results?”