The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done by Peter F. Drucker
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is a book from 1966 - and is said to be a founding book for self-help management literature. It is not an exciting book to read (a bit dry and academic, albeit witty style), but several of the advice here is timeless for any manager.
Some basic truths that a manager betters asks himself/herself time-to-time:
...and this reminder is worth contemplating over:
This is a book from 1966 - and is said to be a founding book for self-help management literature. It is not an exciting book to read (a bit dry and academic, albeit witty style), but several of the advice here is timeless for any manager.
Some basic truths that a manager betters asks himself/herself time-to-time:
- Does my time tend to belong to everybody else?
- Does the flow of events determines what am I doing as a manager - or am I leading my own time?
- Am I focusing on the inside of my organisation (structures, politics, reviews, audits etc) - or on the outside, my clients?
- Do I have time available to me in comparatively large chunks, without constant interruptions and time-wasters?
- Am I being busy - or do I do things that contribute to achieving results?
- Do we as an organisation do something that we would not start over if we had chance to do so now? If yes, why are we still doing it?
- What are my “posteriorities” - that is, tasks not to tackle?
...and this reminder is worth contemplating over:
"The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it and no marginal utility curve for it. Moreover, time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday’s time is gone forever and will never come back. Time is, therefore, always in exceedingly short supply."
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