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

How Great Leaders Inspire Their People

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As a leader, you are not leading things. You are leading people. If you want them to follow you, to help you succeed, you must take care of them. You must not abuse them. And you must treat them with love and respect. If not, they are not going to invest in you.

Everything starts with who you are. How you show up, what you do when you are there, and how you talk to them. They matter.

According to Annette Verschuren, ‘The biggest and hardest personal transformation you will need to make in order to be a great leader is shifting from accomplishing things on your own to achieving things through other people.’

‘Puting yourself on the line may look a lot like failure and rejection before it translates into success.’

‘People rarely know what they’re capable of achieving until life puts them to the test. That’s why your success as a leader depends so heavily upon your ability to do just that.’

‘The main thing preventing people from reaching their goals is procrastination- most often in the form of the hunt for a brilliant plan.’

‘In order to quickly move on opportunity, you don’t need to be the smartest, most experienced or best educated person in the room. All you really need is a brazen attitude.’

‘Leadership is about identifying and creating opportunity, and setting a bold vision. No one will give permission to do this; you need to give yourself permission.’

‘Great leaders don’t fixate on being bad or good. They focus on being better. Focusing on getting better is the first step in effecting tangible, positive change. And getting results is what ultimately gives a leader her power.’

‘Taking the time to truly understand yourself and your values is profoundly important to your professional success.’

‘Knowing and consciously embodying your core values gives you the emotional strength, certainty and decisiveness of a credible leader that others will follow.’

‘Your ability to be successful as a leader is directly tied to your ability to stay organized.’

Source:

Annette Verschuren (2016). Bet on Me: Leading and Succeeding in Business and in Life