3 Posts found for Author: Peter Drucker

Every three months, a group of people from the organization—younger people, junior people, but never the same people—sits down and looks at one segment of the company’s products, or services, or process or policies with a question: If we didn’t do this already, would we go into it the way we are now? Every four or five years, that company has systematically abandoned or at … [ Read more ]

Author: Peter Drucker | Source: Retool Your Business With a Clean Sheet of Paper | Original Publication: Time | Subjects: Best Practices, Management, Strategy

Peter Drucker’s thirty-year-old concept of creating a “manager’s letter” probably remains the best performance-management technique to use with senior executives. Each executive writes an annual letter to her superior, spelling out the objectives of her own job and those of the superior’s job as she sees them. She then sets down the performance standards she believes are being applied to her. She lists the goals … [ Read more ]

Authors: Dick Grote, Peter Drucker | Source: Passing Judgment | Subject: Management

Here’s some very sound advice Peter Drucker has been giving us for at least three decades now, “every three years or so, the enterprise must put every single product, process, technology, market, distributive channel, not to mention every single staff activity on trial for its life. It must ask: Would we now go into this product, this market, this distributive channel, and this technology today? … [ Read more ]

Author: Peter Drucker | Source: Innovation and Organizational Learning Pathways and Pitfalls (Part 2) | Original Publication: The CLEMMER Group | Subject: Management