Author: Peter Drucker
Notes:
What makes an Effective Executive
- Get the knowledge you need
- Concentrate only on two or three tasks at the top of your list, delegate the rest
- Write an action statement
- Act
- Take responsibility for communicating
- Focus on opportunities instead of problems
- Make Meetings Productive
- Think and say “We”
Know Thy Time
- To be effective, executives need to be able to dispose of their time in fairly large chunks - Particularly true with people
- Time Diagnosis
- Record Time Use
- Eliminate things that need not be done at all
- Delegate things that can be done by others just as well or better
- Eliminate others time that are wasted - “What do I do that wasted your time without contributing to your effectiveness?”
- Pruning Time Wasters
- Identify time wastes from lack of system or foresight
- Time waste from overstaffing
- Malorganisation (Symptom - excessive meetings)
- Consolidate discretionary time (plan chunks of time)
What Can I Contribute?
- Focus on contribution turns attention away from own specialty, narrow skills department and focuses on the performance of the whole. It turns attention outside, where there are results.
- Every organisation needs results in three areas
- Direct Results
- Building of values and reaffirmation
- Building and developing people for tomorrow
- Knowledge worker can only be effective if he learns to do one thing very well - specialise.