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Effective Executive

How to Acquire the Effectiveness Habit

by Peter F. Drucker, Joseph A. Maciariello, Jim Collins, Tim Andres Pabon, Zachary First · May 8, 1991

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The measure of the executive, Peter 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 mold them into results.

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