Effective Executive - Effectiveness Can Be Learned

This article contains view points and knowledge of Peter F. Ducker from his book "Effective Executive" and some important view points of many other consultants.

Regardless of your designation learn to get the right things done. It is simply being effective. There are many individuals who are intelligent and have a good imaginary power thus it is very rare to find some one who is effective intelligent and with a great imaginary power.Peter F. Ducker in Effective Executive mentions that brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual; they fail to realize that the brilliant insight is not by itself achievement.

Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results. By themselves, they only set limits to what can be attained.Even though effectiveness is so much important most do not pay much attention to it.The reason for this negligence is less knowledge possesses on the subject within the organization.

Efficiency is another word which is bound with effectiveness. Efficiency  is  the ability to do things right rather than the ability to get the right things done. Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.

Knowledge workers are workers whose main capital is knowledge. Typical examples may include software engineers, doctors, architects, engineers, scientists, public accountants, lawyers, and academics.Most of you reading this article may be knowledge workers and those of us belong to this category gets motivated be being effective at work. Effectiveness keeps the momentum whilst taking away the frustration. Ducker mentions in his book that he knowledge worker is the one “factor of production” through which the highly developed societies and economies of today—the United States, Western Europe, Japan, and also increasingly, the Soviet Union—become and remain competitive.

Usually the people who are most important to the effectiveness of an executive are not people over whom having direct control. They are people in other areas, people who in terms of organization.So it is always important to gather those people whose very much effective and teach it across.Pass the knowledge among all the associates which will help them also to practice the experience of the experts whose already practicing effectiveness.Practice needs to be continued and repeatedly done which will help the other associates to add them to their habits and even that will help them to introduce more effective methodologies which they discover themselves.

1. Focus is everything: 
Arranging practice sessions limited to a duration that allows you to stay focused.

2. Timing is everything, too: Keep track of times during the day when you tend to have the most energy. This may be first thing in the morning, or right before lunch. Try to do your practicing during these naturally productive periods, when you are able to focus and think most clearly.

3. Don't trust your memory: Use a practice notebook. Plan out your practice, and keep track of your practice goals and what you discover during your practice sessions. The key to getting into "flow" when practicing is to constantly strive for clarity of intention. 

4. Smarter, not harder: When things aren't working, sometimes we simply have to practice more. And then there are times when it means we have to go in a different direction.

Just force yourself to be effective.This will help you big  time in the personnel life as well as work life.  

Effective Executive- Introduction

Effective Executive is a great and a very much of an inspiring book by Peter F. Ducker. It speaks of self management towards an effective individual.This book further mentions that To be reasonably effective it is not enough for the individual to be intelligent, to work hard or to be knowledgeable. Effectiveness is something separate, something different.

It teaches you many ways to be effective and finally to become an effective manager who can manage him/her self as well as others. Effectiveness is not  "In-born" but "Practiced" .Effectiveness as an executive ways of doing certain—and fairly simple—things. It consists of a small number of practices which we will talk through out these articles as explained by Ducker and taken to a nut shell by Poornima. Without effectiveness there is no “performance,”no matter how much intelligence and knowledge goes into the work, no matter how many hours it takes. Yet it is perhaps not too surprising that people have so far paid little attention to the effective executive.Thus effective individual can turn an organization to a highly effective organization which sets examples to all the other organizations around. So lets put a collective effort to be a highly effective individual.

I will be posting a series of articles on this and those who are interested can read and help your selves and please do not forget that I value your experience.So feel free to comment and share your opinions/ideas/comments with me.

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