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Tools For Effectiveness
Make yourself more effective.
Make yourself more effective.
Learn the five characteristics you must understand about yourself to remain engaged and productive over the course of a long career.
InBrief summary of “Managing Oneself”,
Harvard Business Review
Learn how to remain effective throughout your life, over periods of change and years of work.
Excerpt from Chapter 47 of
Management: Revised
. Copyright ©2008 by the Peter F. Drucker Literary Trust. Posted with permission of HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
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to buy the book.
Learn how to prepare for a career as a solo act.
Learn what it takes to be a great leader.
Prepare yourself for the new management challenges of the 21st Century.
“The Next Society,” The Economist
“The New Demographics,” The Economist
“The Next Workforce,” The Economist
“The Manufacturing Paradox,” The Economist
“Will the Corporation Survive?,” The Economist
“The Way Ahead,” The Economist
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Make your company more effective.
Make your company more effective.
How can a company can do the right things and still wind up in trouble?
Find out, and then read what you can do about it.
Excerpt from “The Theory of the Business,”
Harvard Business Review
Read about the seven places to find promising innovation opportunities.
InBrief summary of “The Discipline of Innovation,”
Harvard Business Review
Read
The Wall Street Journal’s
selection of Drucker’s 12 greatest insights
from his two decades as a columnist, including “The Five Deadly Business Sins” and “The Delusion of Profits.”
Unbundle what your company does.
“Sell the Mailroom,”
The Wall Street Journal.
“Management always deals with the nature of Man, and with Good and Evil,” Drucker wrote. “Management is a liberal art.”
Watch Connie Martinson’s interviews with more than 3,000 novelists and authors on works of history, psychology, sociology, and more to learn from today’s leading liberal arts thinkers.
Then put people first by treating management as a liberal art.
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Make your nonprofit more effective.
Make your nonprofit more effective.
Innovation isn’t just the province of business. Learn from past winners of the Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation:
(VIDEO
)
See how
Crafts with Conviction
helps idle prisoners turn unwanted office supplies into learning tools for children in under-resourced schools.
(VIDEO
)
Learn how
Common Ground
transformed a derelict area of Times Square while helping unemployed people acquire new skills and find work.
(VIDEO
)
Watch members of
The Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project
as they train detained immigrants to represent themselves in an unfamiliar legal system.
Search a database
of thousands of past applications for the Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation for inspiring examples of change that creates a new dimension of performance.
Purchase
The Nonprofit Drucker
, the social-sector leader’s guide to action from the greatest management thinker of our time. Available as a digital download or on 25 CDs.
Find inspiration and insight
in this excerpt from Drucker’s classic article
“What Business Can Learn from Nonprofits” in
Harvard Business Review
.
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Make your government agency more effective.
Make your government agency more effective.
“We need effective government,” Drucker wrote. “For this, however, we need something we do not have: a theory of what government can do.”
“
Really
Reinventing Government,”
The Atlantic
“Even the most powerful [presidents] lost effectiveness as soon as they violated these rules.”
“Six Rules for Presidents,”
The Wall Street Journal
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