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The Peter F. Drucker Reader
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The Peter F. Drucker Reader

by Peter F. Drucker, Harvard Business Review
November 2016
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
192 pages
4h 18m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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The Effective Decision

EFFECTIVE EXECUTIVES DO NOT MAKE a great many decisions. They concentrate on what is important. They try to make the few important decisions on the highest level of conceptual understanding. They try to find the constants in a situation, to think through what is strategic and generic rather than to “solve problems.” They are, therefore, not overly impressed by speed in decision making; rather, they consider virtuosity in manipulating a great many variables a symptom of sloppy thinking. They want to know what the decision is all about and what the underlying realities are which it has to satisfy. They want impact rather than technique. And they want to be sound rather than clever.

Effective executives know when a decision ...

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