The Effective Executive - Peter F. Drucker

This is the first Biz Book which I completed 
after committing to read at least 
1 book in every 2 weeks

If your company can't increase a new head count or A&P fund is reduced from HQ office..  How can you help company to increase Yield &  Productivity with limited resource? 

I think this book is a good intelligent resource that you will learn & gain from it... how to be The Effective Executive

To be honest, I completed read this book 1 time, but I could not got 100%  the key point from this books... but this time I’m quite concentrate to read & took note which is a key message what I could learn from it.

Thus, below is the golden rules to be The Effective Executive; 

1. Effectiveness Can be Learned — Effective leadership is a skill you learn by understanding what’s expected of you, and focusing on the right things. It’s a differentiating skill that has become increasingly valuable as we’ve moved from an industrial- to a knowledge-based economy

2. Know The Time — Time is a finite resource, and you’re probably wasting more of it then you think. If you want to accomplish great things, you must manage your time wisely. Start by auditing your workday.

     3. What Can I Contribute — Your energy will be wasted if you’re not focused on the right contributions. An executive’s salary comes with an expectation of addressing the right organizational opportunities.

     4. Making Strength Productive — The key to being effective is to leverage your strengths. Position yourself so that your weaknesses are irrelevant.

     5. First Things First — Focus on what’s important now, not in the past. Tackle issues one at a time (multitasking is rarely more productive then concentrated effort).

    

    6.The Elements of Decision-making — Focus on the important decisions; Identify boundary conditions; Determine what is right before making compromises; Understand what the decision needs to accomplish; Separate strategic implications from one-off situations; Build-in a plan for action and feedback.

     7. Effective Decisions — Start with your gut; Don’t base future planning on today’s (or yesterday’s) way of doing things; Disagreement is a good thing (it means people are thinking about the problem. Find out why it’s happening or you won’t see the whole picture.)

   
After 2^nd time read  in this book, at least I learnt that “Effectiveness” is a habit that CAN be learned & developed by PRACTICE…No matter which business they work, which GPA they get, but all Effective Executives must have above habits in their mind.

OOTMAN WALKER

 4 August 2012

“Executives are not paid for doing things they like to do. They are paid for getting the right things done." Peter F. Drucker