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Very good book about organizational self assessment to ensure its success. The idea is to ask the following 5 questions: - what's our mission? - Who's out customer? - What does our customer value? - What are our results? - What's our plan? (has 5 elements: abandon, concentration, innovation, risk taking, analysis)
Simplifying a difficult jobWhen I think about trying to get my business started, running successfully and pleasing my clients, it seems daunting. This booked simplified the process for me. It consolidated it into a nice, tidy package. You just take one question at a time. It’s not a book you should try to rush through and I can see I’ll return to it as I grow my business.
What is our mission?Who is our customer?What does our customer value?What are our results?What is our plan?
Here Drucker emphasis on the importance of understanding how the organization works so as to improve its performance
Even if you know this already, not a bad reminder.
What amazes me about Drucker is his foresight of business progression dating back to the 1940's. Everything he's written can be applied to modern day business strategy. The five questions will challenge everyone to look at their organizations through a different lens.
This is a wonderful concise and focused book guiding leaders of organizations on the five most important questions to ask of themselves and their organizations - 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?It is written by the Leader to Leader Institute which was originally founded by management guru Peter Drucker. The current CEO is the most impressive Frances Hesselbein (amazing record of accomplishment with the Girl...
This is a great little tool for any leader to take a step back and self-evaluate their organization and it's priorities. It's a REALLY quick read and a tool that leaders will have on their bookshelves to reference from time to time.
Very good questions to help define your vision, purpose and strategy
Simple. Practical. Simply practical.Real world exercise:In your next team meeting hand out a sheet of paper (yes, old school) and ask each person on the team to write down their answers to each of these five 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?Then, compare answers.If you and the members of your team disagree on the responses, then you, as the team leader, have work to do.Get to work.For additional ma...
An interesting book. Authors talk about 5 basic questions every employee/associate of an organization must ask or brainstorm while working.Though the questions look simple; however the context and answer of the questions might be complex. Exploring these questions will help to identify future direction, strategy and operations modification.
I will recommend reading some Drucker. It's a must, if you are working in a an organisation in modern society. Just skip this one.The book is part Druckers words and part reflections from five "thought leaders". The Drucker part is good. The thought leader part is too decoupled from the main text.I was curious to see if this short book would be a good introduction to Druckers work to recommend to new readers. It is not.Read "The Effective Executive" and/or "Managing Oneself" instead.
A decent book about mission and values
The five most important questions are as follows...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?Here are some of my favorite thoughts from it..."You cannot arrive at the right definition of results with our significant input from your customers - and please do not get into a debate over that term. The danger is in acting on what you believe satisfies the customer. You will inevitably make wrong assumptions. Leadership s...
Can be summarized in a blog post, not worth a full book! Just focus on your customer and start with a customer-first mentality, this is the core message.
This was a short, quick book that I read as part of an assessment of a non-profit board I serve. I didn't think I would like it. Too business focused for the non-profit world--especially synagogues and other Jewish institutions. BUT I think it was exactly the right book. 5 questions:What is our mission?Who is our customer?What do our customers' value?How do we measure results?What is our plan?These are questions we all need to ask--especially in these turbulent times. Flexibility, creativity, be...
Book was a quick read. Made some good points and I enjoyed it
READ MAY 2017While this is geared to non-profit organizations, the five questions apply to any organization.
I thought it was useful to provide the questions as well as the additional perspectives from experts. But would add that it is VERY difficult to do this well.
Quick read on great questions to ask to focus and drive an organization.