- ISBN13: 9780470227565
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Product Description
With Peter Drucker’s five essential questions and the help of five of today’s thought leaders, this little book will challenge readers to take a close look at the very heart of their organizations and what drives them. A tool for self-assessment and transformation, answering these five questions will fundamentally change the way you work, helping you lead your organization to an exceptional level of performance. Peter Drucker’s five questions ar… More >>
The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Organization
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#1 by Common Sense on April 19, 2010 - 2:37 am
This book is a general summary of subject matter that has appeared in Drucker’s previous work(s). Read the Table of Contents for free and save your money. There is good advice – very basic – here, but not worth the price of admission.
Rating: 2 / 5
#2 by Eric van der Meulen on April 19, 2010 - 3:34 am
I found this self-assessment tool refreshingly easy to read with laser focus on the five most important strategic questions: 1. What is our mission? 2. Who is our customer? 3. What does the customer value? 4. What are our results? 5. What is our plan?. Each of the five questions is first tackled by Drucker, followed by a brief expansion by one of the co-authors, who are management buffs in their own right. While the questions are universally applicable, much of the text and examples focus on non-profits. This really doesn’t matter, because the text paints a broad enough picture to see how this applies regardless. Reading this book makes it abundantly clear WHAT to ask, but leaves it up to the reader to figure out HOW to implement or actionize the findings. All in all a valuable “fog-lifter” to be revisited regularly to evaluate if your daily activities are still in line with your mission. The brevity and organization of the book allow for time-efficient checkups.
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by J. Miller on April 19, 2010 - 5:57 am
Brilliant little book of 100 pages with essays from Drucker, Collins, and friends on management. As a non-profit manager, I found it extremely helpful and began making a list of colleagues I need to give it to. The five questions are:
What is our mission? Who is our customer? What does our customer value? What are our results? What is our plan?
The collection of brief essays then gathers around these questions. There is not hard data here, only intuitive principles from seasoned leaders stated clearly. Definitely worth the read, and it only takes an hour.
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by J. Gonzalez on April 19, 2010 - 8:52 am
To the point, easy to follow and understand, actionable, and short!. I hope all the business books were like this one!. Althougth it is mainly written for “non for profits”, all the reflexions are equally usefull for corporations.
I read it on a plane trip (2 hours)
Rating: 4 / 5
#5 by C-M on April 19, 2010 - 10:10 am
The five questions are simple, yet the book goes in detail why it’s important to ask them in your organization or business. Peter Drucker is a legend and his works show it.
Rating: 5 / 5