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Author’s Note
I am delighted that my book, The Effective Executive, is being included
in the HarperBusiness Essentials series. Since its first publication, in
1966, it has found a large and continuing readership throughout the
world with translations into more than two dozen languages. It is
required reading in a large number of worldwide enterprises—big ones
and small ones—both for people promoted to their first executive
position and for people promoted to higher executive jobs. For the
need to learn to be an effective executive still remains. An effective
executive is not “talent,” let alone “genius.” The effective executive fol-
lows practices that can be learned and must be learned. It is increasingly
difficult to be effective as an executive in all organizations of our
diverse society and not in businesses alone. It is equally necessary for
the fulfillment of the individual and for the performance of the
organization.
The Effective Executive is both a concise blueprint for effectiveness
as an executive within an organization and a practical guide to manag-
ing oneself for performance and achievement, whether within an
organization or on one’s own. It is equally the best introduction for
the nonmanager—whether student or layman—to management and
organizations.
This book grew out of twenty years of consulting with business
executives. But it was first developed as a program for the senior execu-
tives of the Eisenhower administration. It has long been required read-
ing in scores of major business organizations and also for any execu-
tive, no matter how senior or experienced, who is given a new
assignment. It is equally required reading in several of the world’s
largest universities for anyone promoted to an administrative assign-
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ment, e.g., department chairman or dean. The same is true in hospi-
tals. The book has proven itself particularly useful for the million or
more people who, in the last thirty years, have started their own com-
munity foundations and nonprofits in the United States. For every
developed society has become a society of organizations. And every
organization, whatever its specific function, depends for its perfor-
mance (and indeed its survival) on the effectiveness of its executives.
Peter F. Drucker
April 2002
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PETER F.
DRUCKER
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