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    What Makes an Effective Executive (Harvard Business Review Classics)
    What Makes an Effective Executive (Harvard Business Review Classics)
    What Makes an Effective Executive (Harvard Business Review Classics)
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    What Makes an Effective Executive (Harvard Business Review Classics)

    By Peter F. Drucker

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    In his sixty-five-year consulting career, Peter F. Drucker, widely regarded as the father of modern management, identified eight practices that can make any executive effective. Leadership is not about charisma or extroversion. It’s about these practices: Effective executives ask, “What needs to be done?” They also ask, “What is right for the enterprise?” They develop action plans. They take responsibility for decisions. They take responsibility for communicating. They focus on opportunities rather than problems. They run productive meetings. And they think and say “we” rather than “I.” Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice. The Harvard Business Review Classics series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarvard Business Review Press
    Release dateJan 3, 2017
    ISBN9781633692558
    What Makes an Effective Executive (Harvard Business Review Classics)
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    Peter F. Drucker

    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.

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      What Makes an Effective Executive (Harvard Business Review Classics) - Peter F. Drucker

      WHAT MAKES AN EFFECTIVE EXECUTIVE

      HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW

      CLASSICS

      WHAT MAKES

      AN EFFECTIVE EXECUTIVE

      Peter F. Drucker

      Harvard Business Review Press

      Boston, Massachusetts

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      Originally published in Harvard Business Review in June 2004

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