The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done by Peter F.Drucker
This book is about how to become productive in corporate life and professional activity. The person who is in a business or any kind of corporate entity can benefit a lot from this book. Useful practices to improve one's performance and methods to execute the tasks effectively are also described.
Some of my lessons from this book are:
- The effective executive as a knowledge worker focuses on
- To perform the right things
- To have action plans
- To take responsibility.
- To build better communication
- To find out opportunities
- To have productive meetings
- To emphasize the team rather than a self.
- Effectiveness is a skill that can be learned. Every effective executive acquires this skill through knowledge and experience.
- Have always an action plan. It is a commitment to performance, checking the results and controlling the resources (time). Keep reviewing and revising it regularly.
- Know your time. Be attentive where your majority time goes. Analyze it by collecting your time log. Eliminate time wasters and unproductive activities. Allocate a chunk of time to do your critical tasks.
- Contribute. Think about faithfully the value you can give to your organization. Improve your knowledge, generate useful ideas and concepts, lead the team to better contribution.
- Figure out the strength of people in a team. Assing them tasks according to their major areas. Put challenges in front of people, and it helps to open their real strengths and capabilities. Put high performers in front, so the team follows them.
- Manage the things with priority, spend your time on top priority tasks first.
Thank you for reading!
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