The effective executive

If you are to read one book on executive self-management, it should be this, Peter Drucker’s definitive classic, The Effective Executive. It doesn’t matter what size your organization is, or even whether you run an organization at all. Anyone who has responsibility for getting the right things done - anyone who seeks how best to self-deploy on the few priorities that will make the biggest impact - is an executive. The most effective among us have the same number of hours as everyone else, yet they deploy them better, often much better than people with far greater raw talent. As Drucker states early in these pages: People endowed with tremendous brilliance are often "strikingly ineffectual." And if that’s true for the exceptionally brilliant, what hope is there for the rest of us? Actually, there is something much better than hope: Drucker’s practical disciplines.