Prominent leader

Author: Peter Drucker
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: Can a group of ordinary people achieve extraordinary things? The Effective Executive tells us that it is entirely possible, as long as everyone in our organization can be effective. Can effectiveness be learned? The answer is affirmative—effectiveness can be learned. Do all of us have to be effective? Effectiveness is something managers must achieve, but in all knowledge organizations, every knowledge worker is actually a manager—even if they don’t have what is traditionally called authority—as long as they can make outstanding contributions to the organization. In The Effective Executive, Drucker tells us: the effectiveness of managers is often the key factor in determining the effectiveness of organizational work; it is not only senior executives who are managers, but anyone who is responsible for action and decision-making and helps to improve the efficiency of the institution should work and think like a manager.