A handsome, commemorative edition of Peter F. Drucker's timeless classic work on
leadership and management, with a foreword by Jim Collins.
What makes an effective executive?
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 work, 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