TY - BOOK AU - Drucker, Peter F. TI - The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done SN - 9780060833459 U1 - 658.409DRU PY - 2006/// CY - New York PB - HarperBusiness KW - Executives N1 - Includes index N2 - For decades, Peter F. Drucker was widely regarded as "the dean of this country’s business and management philosophers" (Wall Street Journal). In this concise and brilliant guide to managing oneself, he looks to the most influential position in management—the executive. The measure of the executive, Drucker reminds us, is the ability to "get the right things done." This usually involves doing what other people have overlooked as well as avoiding what is unproductive. Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge may all be wasted in an executive job without the acquired habits of mind that improve productivity and mold them into results ER -