The Effective Executive in Action: A Journal for Getting the Right Things Done

by Peter F. Drucker, Joseph A. Maciariello

The Effective Executive in Action is a journal based on Peter F. Drucker's classic and preeminent work on management and effectiveness -- The Effective Executive . Here Drucker and Maciariello provide executives, managers, and knowledge workers with a guide to effective action -- the central theme of Drucker's work. The authors take more than one hundred readings from Drucker's classic work, update them, and provide provocative questions to ponder and actions to take in order to improve your own work. Also included in this journal is a space for you to record your thoughts for later review and reflection. The Effective Executive in Action will teach you how to be a better leader and how to lead according to the five main pillars of Drucker's leadership philosophy.

Genres: Business, Management, Leadership

224 pages, Hardcover

First published December 2, 2005

About the author

Peter Ferdinand Drucker was a writer, management consultant and university professor. His writing focused on management-related literature. Peter Drucker made famous the term knowledge worker and is thought to have unknowingly ushered in the knowledge economy, which effectively challenges Karl Marx's world-view of the political economy. George Orwell credits Peter Drucker as one of the only writers to predict the German-Soviet Pact of 1939.

The son of a high level civil servant in the Habsburg empire, Drucker was born in the chocolate capital of Austria, in a small village named Kaasgraben (now a suburb of Vienna, part of the 19th district, Döbling). Following the defeat of Austria-Hungary in World War I, there were few opportunities for employment in Vienna so after finishing school he went to Germany, first working in banking and then in journalism. While in Germany, he earned a doctorate in International Law. The rise of Nazism forced him to leave Germany in 1933. After spending four years in London, in 1937 he moved permanently to the United States, where he became a university professor as well as a freelance writer and business guru. In 1943 he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. He taught at New York University as a Professor of Management from 1950 to 1971. From 1971 to his death he was the Clarke Professor of Social Science and Management at Claremont Graduate University.

Reviews

[Esra Ayas]

Bilinen bir çok önemli noktayı maddeleyerek özetlemiş olması dışında bana yeni bir değer katmadı. Beklentim daha fazlaydı.

[Omar M. Khateeb]

A great book to use daily at the office. Each chapter has some exercises to work through and reinforces what Drucker teaches in his classic book.

[Stephen]

READ MAR 2021

Good companion to Drucker’s 2002 “The Effective Executive.” However, the questions and actions were not as effective (ironically) as they could have been.

[Antonios Hadjigeorgalis]

This book is a great introduction to Peter Druckers' ideas on what makes an effective executive. This book is in the format of a journal and is designed to be used in an ongoing enterprise to increase effectiveness. Each chapter includes great questions to ask about your business and clear action steps to take.

[Kent]

Being a Drucker fan, I am reading this journal to discover if it will be of assistance in the five key components of an effective executive. I have just started reading.

[Roberta]

the companion to the Effective Executive. We read both books and interviewed someone we considered an effective executive then presented to our class, this helped to make the theories come alive.

[Ralph Wechuli]

A must read piece for all in any management level... In fact for anybody who aspires to be an effective worker.

[Michael Satoh]

Peter Drucker ー　The Effective Executive