Introduction xvii
Effective Leaders
Week 1 Developing Leaders, Not Functionaries: Effective Leaders Get the Right Things Done and You Can Trust Them 3
Week 2 Questions to Ask Before Committing a Portion of Your Life to the Service of an Organization 9
Management is a Human Activity
Week 3 Three Fundamental Questions for a Functioning Society of Organizations 17
Week 4 Education and Management: Keys to Economic Development 25
Week 5 Management Rooted in the Nature of Reality 34
Setting Your Sights on the Important, Not the Urgent
Week 6 Make the Important Rather Than the Urgent Your Priority in Life 45
Week 7 Manage in Two Time Dimensions 51
The Road Map to Personal Effectiveness
Week 8 Concentration 59
Week 9 Organize Work for Effectiveness 65
Week 10 Information Literacy for Executive Effectiveness 71
Week 11 Principles of Professional Leadership and Management 78
Management in a Pluralistic Society of Organizations
Week 12 Management "The Governing Organ of All Institutions of Modern Society" 95
Week 13 The First Job in Any Organization Is to Make Top Management Effective 104
Week 14 Control by Mission and Strategy, Not by Hierarchy 111
Week 15 Sustaining the Spirit of an Organization 118
Navigating a Society in Transition
Week 16 Our Problems in the United States Are Social Problems 127
Week 17 Rough Period of Transition Ahead for America 133
Week 18 A Major Period of Transition for Society and Individuals 139
Week 19 Seeing the Future That Has Already Happened: Social and Demographic Changes Emerging in the United States 147
Week 20 Seeing the Future That Has Already Happened: Turmoil in Education 155
Maintaining Your Organization through Change
Week 21 Continuity and Change 163
Week 22 Systematic Abandonment and Innovation 170
Week 23 Using the Mission Statement to Create Unity in the Organization 177
Week 24 A Primer on Market Research of Noncustomers 184
Week 25 Phase Changes as Organizations Grow and Change 192
Structuring Your Organization
Week 26 Centralization, Confederation, and Decentralization 203
Week 27 The Networked Organization: A Model for the Twenty-First Century 209
Managing Your Members
Week 28 Managing the Superstar 219
Week 29 A Second Chance for Failures 225
Week 30 What Kind of Organizations Does America Need to Strengthen Society 231
The Succession Decision
Week 31 The Succession Decision: Maintaining the Spirit of the Organization 241
Week 32 Planning for Succession in Organizations 249
Lessons from the Social Sector on the Power of Purpose
Week 33 Mission 265
Week 34 Accommodating Various Constituencies in a Mission 271
Week 35 The Salvation Army 278
Week 36 Diffusion of Innovation-Public Schools 286
Week 37 Application of Peter Drucker's Methodology of Social Ecology 294
Developing Oneself from Success to Significance
Week 38 Pursuing Significance After Success 307
Week 39 Work in an Area of Your Unique Contribution 312
Week 40 Individuals May Need a Process to Help Them Move from Success to Significance 318
Week 41 Where Do I Really Belong? 324
Week 42 Halftime Is an Entrepreneurial Enterprise 330
Week 43 A Catalyst to Help People Manage Themselves and Move to the Second Half of Their Lives 336
Character and Legacy
Week 44 Our Society in the United States Has Lost Its Sweetness 343
Week 45 The Power of Purpose: Rick Warren on Peter Drucker 350
Week 46 The Stewardship of Affluence and the Stewardship of Influence 357
Week 47 Making Ourselves Useful to Others and to Ourselves 364
Week 48 What Do Leaders Stand For? 369
Week 49 Yon Become a Person by Knowing Your Values 375
Week 50 What Do You Want to Be Remembered For? 381
Week 51 "We Mentor… Because We Can Envision What a Person Can Become" 388
Week 52 Peter Drucker's Ten Principles for Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life, As Reported by Bob Buford 393
Lessons Learned 401
Appendix 414
Notes 434
Bibliography 445
Index 451