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A N I N S P I R I N G TO O L FO R O R G A N I Z AT I O N S A N D T H E P EO P L E W H O L E A D T H E M
The Five
Questions
MOST IMPORTANT
You Will Ever Ask
About Your Organization
Peter F. Drucker
Jim Collins, Philip Kotler, James Kouzes,
Judith Rodin, V. Kasturi Rangan, and Frances Hesselbein
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“Nobody, not even Socrates, has ever asked better questions than Peter Drucker. All the personality, all the wisdom is here to make your work dramatically more effective. There’s nothing better. It’s like having Peter at your side.”
—Bob Buford, author, Halftime and Finishing Well, and founding chairman, Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management
“Peter Drucker’s penetrating and profound insights are more relevant and needed today than when he originally produced them. This helpful revision of his classic Self-Assessment Tool offers managers and leaders in every sector—nonprofit, business, and government—a useful guide to figuring out what’s needed, why it matters, and how to make it work. At a time when the need for more effective management and more ethical leadership are the moral equivalent of global warming, Drucker’s common sense and courage should be modeled by everyone who cares about doing things right and doing the right thing.”
—Ira A. Jackson, dean, Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi
Ito Graduate School of Management, and board member, The Drucker Institute
“Peter Drucker’s Five Most Important Questions continue to be the indispensable questions that an organization must ask itself, regardless of size or sector, if it is determined to be an organization of the future. When these questions are asked, the journey begins. And as Peter Drucker reminds us in this book, the answers are in the questions.”
—Kathy Cloninger, CEO, Girl Scouts of the USA
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A N I N S P I R I N G TO O L FO R O R G A N I Z AT I O N S A N D T H E P EO P L E W H O L E A D T H E M
The Five
Questions
MOST IMPORTANT
You Will Ever Ask
About Your Organization
Peter F. Drucker
Jim Collins, Philip Kotler, James Kouzes,
Judith Rodin, V. Kasturi Rangan, and Frances Hesselbein
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“Nobody, not even Socrates, has ever asked better questions than Peter Drucker. All the personality, all the wisdom is here to make your work dramatically more effective. There’s nothing better. It’s like having Peter at your side.”
—Bob Buford, author, Halftime and Finishing Well, and founding chairman, Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management
“Peter Drucker’s penetrating and profound insights are more relevant and needed today than when he originally produced them. This helpful revision of his classic Self-Assessment Tool offers managers and leaders in every sector—nonprofit, business, and government—a useful guide to figuring out what’s needed, why it matters, and how to make it work. At a time when the need for more effective management and more ethical leadership are the moral equivalent of global warming, Drucker’s common sense and courage should be modeled by everyone who cares about doing things right and doing the right thing.”
—Ira A. Jackson, dean, Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi
Ito Graduate School of Management, and board member, The Drucker Institute
“Peter Drucker’s Five Most Important Questions continue to be the indispensable questions that an organization must ask itself, regardless of size or sector, if it is determined to be an organization of the future. When these questions are asked, the journey begins. And as Peter Drucker reminds us in this book, the answers are in the questions.”
—Kathy Cloninger, CEO, Girl Scouts of the USA
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