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“plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.”
― The Effective Executive
― The Effective Executive
“If the executive lets the flow of events determine what he does, what he works on, and what he takes seriously, he will fritter himself away “operating.” He may be an excellent man. But he is certain to waste his knowledge and ability and to throw away what little effectiveness he might have achieved. What the executive needs are criteria which enable him to work on the truly important, that is, on contributions and results, even though the criteria are not found in the flow of events.”
― The Effective Executive
― The Effective Executive
“It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem - which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.”
― The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done ― A Guide to Management
― The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done ― A Guide to Management
“Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.”
― The Effective Executive
― The Effective Executive
“Converting a decision into action requires answering several distinct questions: Who has to know of this decision? What action has to be taken? Who is to take it? And what does the action have to be so that the people who have to do it can do it? The first and the last of these are too often overlooked—with dire results.”
― The Effective Executive
― The Effective Executive
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