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What makes an effective executive?
Peter Drucker
'An effective executive does not need to be a leader in the sense most commonly used.' So says Peter Drucker in his recent survey of executives based on his 65-year consulting career. What made them effective was that they followed the same nine practices.
- Ask 'What needs to be done?'
When Jack Welch took over at GE what he wanted to do was launch overseas expansion. But that wasn't what needed to be done which was getting rid of...