This is a recording of an interview of Peter Drucker outlining his advice for effective management. Drucker recommends that managers select a couple points from this recording, to implement, that will help them do the right things, effectively. Five crucial managerial practices for effective managing were highlighted in his book the "Effective Executive". They include efficient time management, focusing on one's outward contribution, building on strengths, setting and sticking to priorities, and making effective decisions. Drucker admits that if he were to write the list of practices again, ten years later, he would add appraising one's own performance. Two important questions for managers to ask of themselves are "What explains my being on the payroll for this company?" and "What should my results and contributions be?" He describes the current approach to evaluating employees as wrong and unproductive because it aims to root out weaknesses. This strains work relationships and instead should focus more on strengths. An important goal is to help subordinates "make strengths effective, and weaknesses irrelevant". An effective superior should also make sure one's subordinates are capable of doing their work, make sure each employee knows what is expected and holds themselves accountable for it, and take responsibility for employee placement and assignment control. Drucker believes that manners are underrated and style is overrated. He closes by stating that it is part of a manager's job to "make ordinary everyday people capable of extraordinary performance".
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MiniDisc: what is eff?/art of bei; Box 89, minidiscs and floppies
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