Leadership - What Really Matters: A Handbook on Systemic Leadership (Management for Professionals)

Drucker claimed that “everything that concerns the achievements and results of an institution is the subject of management and l ...

2.1.1.2 Leading Knowledge Workers According to Drucker, human beings should be the central focus of management. The task of the ...

workers frequently seek their assistance, or take up their time in other ways. Potentially, this can strongly impact their effec ...

If an employee does not master his/her tasks, then it is the manager’s failure. The manager should maintain communication with e ...

avoid causing trouble with a change in behavior, turned a perfectly good relation- ship into a nightmare of embarrassment and mi ...

In order to develop and maintain their own resources, here are some of Drucker’s recommendations: first, a leader and/or knowled ...

or bonds in the enterprise. “A healthy enterprise, a healthy university or a healthy hospital cannot exist in society if the lat ...

Effective leaders are aware that it is not useful to start with the facts but with opinions in the shape of hypotheses. A good d ...

now summarize under the term “emotional intelligence”: empathy, responsibility, courage, honesty, modesty, and sociability. As s ...

means being prepared to answer for our own actions and not abusing our personal power. Unlike the other three elements responsib ...

Therefore one of the most important management tasks consists of training employees to function and think as individuals but als ...

Research calls the condition of a worker completely merging with his or her own activities “flow”: one forgets time and space, b ...

to contribute. This contribution and motivation must be independent from incen- tives or motivating behaviors” (Malik 2001, p. 9 ...

Top-notch employees will recognize strengths and weaknesses and utilize both to enhance the organization. Effective management u ...

trust is not shaken by negative employees, warns Malik. Effective employees and managers must quickly rid themselves of negative ...

personal visions and act on the company’s visions. Effective managers fulfill the same tasks as others, but in a different way, ...

The changes taking place in the economy and society force us to consider the structures of organizations in shorter time frames ...

Malik recommends due deliberation with regard to two kinds of decisions: person- nel decisions and decisions affecting remunerat ...

means examining whether independence is used correctly and ideally whether there is enough of it. To avoid friction, it is best ...

markets change and individuals are more mobile and flexible than they were 20 years ago. Employees must receive effective leader ...