Peter Drucker’s Enduring Wisdom For Today’s Leaders

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If you want to gain more wisdom, put your knowledge to work.

Because ‘you cannot arrive at the right definition of results without significant input from your customers…’

A fundamental responsibility of leadership is to make sure that everybody knows the mission, understands it, lives it.’

‘Never subordinate the mission in order to get money.’

‘Our business is not to please everyone casually but to please our target customers deeply.’

Transformation requires moving people out of their old organizational boxes into flexible, fluid management systems.’

Leadership is a responsibility all members of the organization share, and it is circular.’

Concentration is building on success, strengthening what does work. The best rule is to put your efforts into your successes.’

‘If you have more than five goals, you have none.’

Planning does not substitute facts for judgment, nor science for leadership. It recognizes the importance of analysis, courage, experience, intuition-even hunch. It is responsibility rather than technique.’

Every interaction with a customer is now marketing. Marketing was once focused on the destination- and that destination was most likely a purchase. Marketing is now is about the customer journey, and customer expect you to be there to help them every step of the way- before, during, and after the purchase.’

Source:

Peter F, Drucker, Frances Hesselbein, and Joan Snyder Kuhl (2015). Peter Drucker’s Five Most Important Questions: Enduring Wisdom for Today’s Leaders

Intentional Leadership in Action

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Intentional leaders know who they are. They don’t pretend to be who they are not. They know that they are not perfect. And they are not afraid to admit their mistakes.

According to Jane A. G. Kise, ‘Intentional leaders have deep self-knowledge, and recognize that their strengths come with blind spots.’

‘Intentional leaders go beyond identifying their values; they ponder how they will put them into action.’

‘Intentional leaders explore how their areas of responsibility benefit from each side of the clarity/ambiguity lens.’

Intentional leaders keep trust in mind from the start of every new relationship, knowing it is easier to build trust than to rebuild it once mistrust permeates the workplace.’

‘Leaders need to empower those they are leading, not make them overdependent.’

‘People like to be recognized in different ways.’

‘Leaders who emphasize breath may assume that everyone thrives on every changing activities.’

‘Leadership requires looking outward.’

‘Humility allows us to not adjust acknowledge weaknesses but to manage them, which is key to developing leadership expertise.’

Source:

Jane A. G. Kise (2014). Intentional Leadership: 12 Lenses for Focusing Strengths, Managing Weaknesses, and Achieving our Purpose