PREFACE
This book pays homage to a man I consider one of my chief mentors and kindred spirits, though I never actually had the pleasure of studying or working with him.
When I was a business student in the late 1980s, I fell in love with Peter F. Drucker’s book The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done. It delivers a huge amount of useful, real-world information in fewer than two hundred pages. It’s still my favorite business book of all time, and I learn something new every time I read it.
Drucker published the first edition of The Effective Executive in 1967. While the book has weathered the years well, some of the concepts are a bit dated, particularly with today’s technology and social customs. Drucker ...
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