Drucker and Collins on Leaders and Managers

When young people ask, “What can I do to make a difference?” one of the best answers lies right here in this book (Management by Peter Drucker).

Get your hands on an organization aligned with your passion, if not in business, then in the social sectors. If you can’t find one, start one. And then lead it—through the practice of management—to deliver extraordinary results and to make such a distinctive impact that you multiply your own impact by a thousand-fold.

Jim Collins

This week our leadership team started a journey through Peter Drucker’s book Management.  I didn’t graduate from business school and so I don’t have a lot of prior experience to Drucker.  But from what I have researched so far — his principles have been adopted worldwide and he’s known for being extremely practical.  I can get behind practical.

The title “management” is a little daunting because I have tended to view leadership as high calling and management as just a bureaucrat.

Best-selling author Jim Collins wrote the forward to the book and right out of the gate he addresses this myth.  ”Those who seek to lead but fail to manage will become either irrelevant or dangerous, not only to their organizations, but to society.”

I am excited for our team and inspired to be better at management so that I can “make a difference” and “multiply my impact by a thousand-fold”.