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Amplify Our Effectiveness

May 13th, 2010

“Effectiveness is a discipline. And, like every discipline, effectiveness can be learned and must be learned.”

–Peter Drucker, The Effective Executive

With that quote from Peter Drucker, we celebrate the revival of my blog with this post. Moving forward, the mission of the blog is to share and to discuss everything that we can use to make us more effective in what we do. Being effective is a personal choice and a journey. Achieving effectiveness is also something that can be learned and get better at. Effectiveness and efficiency often go together, and they complement each other. By over-emphasize one or the other is not always optimal, either.

The information shared in this blog is not going to be anything revolutionary or shockingly new. After all, many business and management scholars have studied the subjects of effectiveness and efficiency for decades.  The intent of this blog is to share, educate, and encourage idea exchange. In the end, I sincerely hope the information presented here will be more than a helpful reading but also something that is actionable.

Now back to Drucker’s book for a bit…

The book rests on two premises where 1) the executive’s job is to be effective; and 2) effectiveness can be learned. Dr. Drucker also defined “executive” as a knowledge worker who “is responsible for a contribution that materially affects the capacity of the organization to perform and to obtain results.” I believe that definition includes most, if not all, of us. Moreover, I will not going into the books in great details since many others have already done the in-depth reviews. You can check out the following URLs and see what others had already said:

http://www.manager-tools.com/book-review/effective-executive
http://www.amazon.com/Effective-Executive-Definitive-Harperbusiness-Essentials/dp/0060833459

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