by Consultant's Mind | Learning
Peter Drucker, the godfather of management Huge fan of Drucker, quite a few blog posts on this titan of thinking. Strategic decision making . . this is one of my favorite quotes of his “The question that faces the strategic decision maker is not ‘what his organization...
by Consultant's Mind | Consulting
The Effective Executive The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker is a a classic. Written 40+ years ago, and still enormously relevant. You can find pdf online for free or buy it used at Amazon for $2 (affiliate link). A steal. Great quotes from Drucker (shown in...
by Consultant's Mind | Consulting
Everyone who reads this blog, knows that I am a huge Drucker fan. This quote from The Effective Executive here (affiliate link), published in 1967, sums up how good consultancies run. Consultants are knowledge workers The knowledge worker cannot be supervised...
by Consultant's Mind | Learning
This is my calendar from a recent week. Granted some of these were client interviews, but needless to say, the real work and thinking was done between meetings, or at night at the hotel. The time before and after the meeting were also “wasted” because I...
by Consultant's Mind | Learning
Peter Drucker Peter Drucker is a legend in business and management thinking. He passed away in 2005, after writing almost 40 books, teaching extensively and consulting people like Procter and Gamble’s A.G. Lafley, GE’s Jack Welch, and Intel’s Andy...