Drucker on Personal Effectiveness

Personal Effectiveness

Drucker on Personal Effectiveness

By Bob Moore, CMC, MCC, The Effectiveness Coach®

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You may have fed on the wisdom of Peter Drucker who had an amazing 70 year career as a consultant, teacher and writer of over 40 books. I became a serious student of Peter Drucker's writings with the book, The Effective Executive (1966). In fact, it was the foundation upon which I have built Effectiveness, Inc. and The Effectiveness Coach®.

On August 1, 2009, Berrett-Koehler published Bruce Rosenstein's book, Living in More Than One World: How Peter Drucker's Wisdom Can Inspire and Transform Your Life. Rosenstein is a veteran journalist and leading expert on the life and work of management icon Peter Drucker who died in 2005 at 95.

Here are 6 tips based on Drucker's thought and writings that can provide clear-headed and timeless advice to help guide us through the turmoil and uncertainly we are facing today:

Develop yourself as well as others: Drucker believed that to successfully help others to develop, you need to practice self-development.
Build on integrity: What a manager or professional has to be able to do can be learned. But there is one qualification we cannot acquire but must bring to the task. It is not genius: it is character.
Pay attention to what's happening outside your four walls: Drucker said we are too focused on what happens within our own organizations, missing out on opportunities that originate elsewhere. Open yourself to curiosity and love of learning.
Practice systematic abandonment: You may have to give up or scale back things that are enjoyable, or still seem important to you.
Figure out the theory of your business: What does your organization get paid for? Too many organizations, he believed, had outdated or simply incorrect assumptions, which could lead to disaster.
Practice information responsibility: Ask yourself what information you owe to people you work with, and on whom you depend. The flip side of this is to ask what information you need to do your job and who you will get it from, as well as the form and time frame.

Rosenstein comments that these are not necessarily easy. However, mastering all or most of them, even if it takes a long time, will provide the opportunity for having both a meaningful and satisfying life and career.

Click here to purchase Living in More Than One World: How Peter Drucker's Wisdom Can Inspire and Transform Your Life from Amazon.

Enthusiastically,

Bob

Bob Moore, CMC®, President
Effectiveness, Inc/The Effectiveness Coach®
Aligning Human Capital with Strategic Objectives

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