Who recommended The Effective Executive?

18 people have recommended The Effective Executive in the interviews, articles and reading lists we track, including Tim Ferriss, Nat Eliason, Ev Williams and Frank Chimero. Each name links to their full reading list.

Is The Effective Executive worth reading?

18 people we track recommend it. It is best for: A new department head in a mid-size engineering firm who feels like they’re always firefighting and never advancing strategic goals—the book’s time-blocking and contribution focus will reorient them.; A solo entrepreneur juggling too many opportunities who needs Drucker’s ruthless approach to identifying what to stop doing and what to lean into.; A policy advisor in government overwhelmed by endless meetings and email, who will value the emphasis on carving out uninterrupted thinking time and making fewer, bigger decisions.. It may not suit: You’ll lose interest if you want lively examples or storytelling—Drucker’s style is declarative and theoretical.; Not for those wanting a step-by-step how-to; the book offers principles to adapt, not a recipe.; You’ll likely put it down when you encounter dated office scenarios (typists, memos, rigid hierarchies) that feel alien to flat organizations and remote work..

What books are like The Effective Executive?

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The Effective Executive: Recommended by 18 People

Name: The Effective Executive
Author: Peter F. Drucker
ISBN: 9780062574350

A handsome, commemorative edition of Peter F. Drucker’s timeless classic work on leadership and management, with a foreword by Jim Collins. What makes an effective executive? For decades, Peter F. Drucker was widely regarded as "the dean of this country’s business and management philosophers" (Wall Street Journal). In this concise and brilliant work, he looks to the most influential position in management—the executive. The measure of the executive, Drucker reminds us, is the ability to "get the right things done." This usually involves doing what other people have overlooked as well as avoiding what is unproductive. Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge may all be wasted in an executive…