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=Notes=
=Notes=
*We could use people of broader knowledge. We certainly could use people of much greater abilities in many places
*Brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual - p11
*Brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual - p11
*Manual work - doing things right rather getting the right things done.
*Manual work - doing things right rather getting the right things done.

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Classic book on management.

https://www.jimcollins.com/article_topics/articles/Ten-Lessons-I-Learned-from-Peter-Drucker.html#articletop

Notes

  • We could use people of broader knowledge. We certainly could use people of much greater abilities in many places
  • Brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual - p11
  • Manual work - doing things right rather getting the right things done.
  • The greatest wisdom not applied to action is meaningless data -p5
  • You can manage no one yet be an executive p8
  • Execs - make decisions of impact upon results
  • Because of 4 affordances of the corporation, the exec should assume that he will be ineffective, unless special means are taken to become effective.