Drucker's management thought: 7 theories and 43 principles of management, each of which is the essence

Intel Chairman Andy Grove said:
"Drucker is a hero in my heart. His writings and thoughts are very clear, and he is unique among those who are enthusiastic about fashion ideas."

Drucker's works have influenced generations of scholars and entrepreneurs who have pursued innovation and best management practices. Various business management courses have also been deeply influenced by Peter Drucker's ideas. Today I will share with you the management approach of the father of modern management:

First, managers must be effective.

1. Effectiveness is what managers can and must do.
2. It is not only the executives who are the managers. All knowledge workers should work and think like managers.
3. The person who is responsible for the organization and can influence the results of the organization is the manager.
4. Don't think that being effective is unattainable, being effective can be learned.
5. Everyone takes effectiveness as the highest standard of work, and a group of ordinary people can do extraordinary things.
6. How to be effective: time management, focus on contribution, use of strengths, priority of important things, effective decision-making.

Second, the indispensable thing for an enterprise is efficiency, not efficiency.

1. Those who have achieved something start with the most important things. Also, only do one thing at a time.
2. Efficiency is "doing things in the right way", and efficiency is "doing the right things." For enterprises, what is indispensable is efficiency, not efficiency.
3. The five core tasks of managers: setting goals, assigning tasks, encouraging communication, performance evaluation, and cultivating talents.
4. The leader should guide his subordinates to do the right thing, because leadership talent is determined by the results of the leader's work.
5. The failure cannot be attributed to the incompetence or accidental situation of the subordinates. In fact, failure is a symptom of a flaw in the system.
6. Effective management means paying attention to time management, system thinking, and cultivating successors.

Third, the most important ability of managers is the ability to employ people.

1. The diversity of people must be absolutely tolerant, and the enterprise must not be a factory that transforms the personality of employees.
2. If you want to hire a person's hands, you have to hire him as a whole.
3. When an effective manager employs people, he will first consider what someone can do instead of considering what the job requirements are.
4. The appointment and promotion of effective leaders is based on ability. The use of people is not to overcome people's weaknesses, but to give play to their strengths.
5. The first sign of the recession is the inability to attract talents who are both capable and passionate.
6. Companies should pay for human judgment, not for no fault.

Fourth, adapt to "changes" as quickly as possible.

1. The most successful product today may become obsolete the fastest tomorrow.
2. Even the most powerful companies will get into trouble if they don’t act on the future.
3. Change is not the most important, the trend of change or the change of trend is the most important.
4. In the rapid structural adjustment, the only thing that can survive is the leader of the change. We can't control the change, only walk in front of it.
5. Change is not a threat, but an opportunity.
6. When a goal is achieved, it is not a time to celebrate, but a time to redefine the goal.

Fifth, "learning ability" is "core competitiveness".

1. History books will not record those who achieved excellent grades in school but entered society but achieved nothing.
2. A person's ability to learn is his core competitiveness.
3. If only confined to the company to understand the situation, then the operator can easily fall into a state of blind peace of mind.
4. Knowledge is not in books, only information.
5. Knowledge is updated very quickly, and unless employees can continuously learn at work, they will soon be eliminated.
6. The illiterate in the future will be those who have no knowledge and will not update their knowledge. The main reason why adults are eliminated is the decline in learning ability.

Sixth, an effective CEO should grasp the big and let go of the small.

1. An effective CEO (or senior manager) never performs micro-management.
2. Effective managers should focus on the overall situation, rather than make themselves an "all-round" leader.
3. The word "authorization" is often misunderstood or even misunderstood by others. The meaning of this word should be to deliver what can be done by others to others, so that you can do what you really should do. This is a big improvement in effectiveness.
4. Remember one sentence: the only way to make managers work enthusiastically is to give them more freedom and responsibility.
5. If not properly authorized, on the one hand it hinders the enthusiasm of subordinates; on the other hand, it is easy to lose the trust of employees.
6. When setting limits on the decisions that managers have the right to make, there is a simple rule: all powers that are not clearly stipulated in words that are assigned to higher-level management departments belong to lower-level management departments.

Seventh, management is not a "manager" but a "leader".

If the respect for people is lost, the development of potential is likely to be understood as treating people as tools used only for organizational performance.

1. Only by restoring respect for people, can people truly be released.
2. Remember that they are not employees but people.
3. The so-called "stupid creativity" is not to listen to and transform the creativity.
4. You must learn how to manage things without the right to give orders, without being controlled by others or controlling others.
5. The function of an organization is to allow ordinary people to do extraordinary things together. Therefore, management is not a manager but a leader.
6. People are the most important asset of an enterprise.
7. Managers must respect every employee. Respect is not only a polite request, but more importantly, it is based on the idea that employees are the real masters of the company.

No one is a born manager. Only by continuous learning, establishing a systematic and complete enterprise management system and coping with practice can we improve leadership and bring out a super team.

Published on 2019-06-11