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Peter Drucker on The Effective Executive

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But Peter Drucker, whose work has played a defining role in my own growth as a manager and leader, identified eight practices of effective executive based on his observations over 65 years of his consulting career. – Peter Drucker, What Makes an Effective Executive. Related posts at QAspire. The Spark of Initiative.

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Micro-Habits of High Impact Managers

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Managers are linchpins who have a big impact in building an organizational culture where people thrive. High-impact managers are those who are adept at driving high-level agendas without losing focus on small things (that are actually big things) that go on to define good leadership. However, this tends to be overlooked.

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Micro-Habits of High Impact Managers

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Managers are linchpins who have a big impact in building an organizational culture where people thrive. High-impact managers are those who are adept at driving high-level agendas without losing focus on small things (that are actually big things) that go on to define good leadership. However, this tends to be overlooked.

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Being a Self-Aware Leader: Tasha Eurich

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Because only when you operate from strengths can you achieve true excellence.” – Peter Drucker, Managing Oneself. As human beings, we evolve and change continuously. Over a period of time, our interests, world view, ways of working, speed of thinking, approach to learning changes.

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Drucker’s Err – The Purpose of Business

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Drucker got it wrong. Drucker famously wrote that “ the purpose of business is to create and keep a customer. ” I’m as much a fan of Drucker’s as any management scholar, but I have to part ways with him here. The purpose of business is NOT to create or to keep a customer.

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Productivity Reminders…

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… For Managers. If you try to adopt old “command and control” style of management to drive knowledge workers, they get even less productive. Facilitate and support, but don’t spoon feed and micro-manage. In knowledge world, productivity is hard to quantify. Don’t command, empower. Don’t control, but lead them instead.

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My 2020 Story and a Few Lessons Along the Way

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Managing our attention is the key to well being. Leading the Self in Tough Times: Drucker Revisited. However, health and wellness is about a consistent daily effort in eating clean, exercising, meditating and sleeping well. It is a system that needs careful attention to all its parts working well together. Optimize the whole.