I am reading a really cool book called “Peter Drucker: The Great Pioneer of Management Theory and Practice by Robert Heller. It is awesome because it is a broad stroke look at the life of Drucker, and all his thoughts and principles of leadership and management. Not a lot of fluff, just all the good stuff.
Anyways, I came across a great little tidbit on the eight perspectives Drucker asserted a good manager needed to maintain in order to keep producing results. Here they are:
Producing Results Rests on these Eight Perceptions
1. Resources and results exist outside, not inside, the business
2. Results come from exploiting opportunities, not solving problems.
3. For results, resources must go to opportunities, not to problems
4. “Economic results” do not go to minor players in a given market, but to leaders
5. Leadership (in a given market), however, is not likely to last
6. What exists is getting old
7. What exists is likely to be mis allocated (i.e., the first 10 percent of effort produces 90 percent of the results
8. To achieve economic results, concentrate.
All stuff I had never seen before, and that I think is helpful in ministry or wherever!
