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    The Five Most Important Questions: You Will Ever Ask About Your Organization
    The Five Most Important Questions: You Will Ever Ask About Your Organization
    The Five Most Important Questions: You Will Ever Ask About Your Organization
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    The Five Most Important Questions: You Will Ever Ask About Your Organization

    Written by Peter F. Drucker

    Narrated by Erik Synnestvedt

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    With Peter Drucker's five essential questions and the help of five of today's thought leaders, this little book will challenge readers to take a close look at the very heart of their organizations and what drives them. A tool for self-assessment and transformation, answering these five questions will fundamentally change the way you work, helping you lead your organization to an exceptional level of performance.

    Peter Drucker's five questions are:

    What is our Mission? with Jim Collins
    Who is our Customer? with Phil Kotler
    What does the Customer Value? with Jim Kouzes
    What are our Results? with Judith Rodin
    What is our Plan? with V. Kasturi Rangan
    These essential questions, grounded in Peter Drucker's theories of management, will take readers on a exploration of organizational and personal self-discovery, giving them a means to assess how to be--how to develop quality, character, mind-set, values and courage. The questions lead to action. By asking these questions, readers can focus on why they are doing what they are doing in their work, and how to do it better. Designed for today's busy professionals, this brief, clear and accessible book will challenge readers to ask these provocative questions and it will stimulate spirited discussions and action within any organization, inspiring positive change and new levels of excellence, helping all to envision the future of theirs' or any organization
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAscent Audio
    Release dateNov 21, 2008
    ISBN9781596593046
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    Peter F. Drucker

    Peter F. Drucker is considered the most influential management thinker ever. The author of more than twenty-five books, his ideas have had an enormous impact on shaping the modern corporation. Drucker passed away in 2005.

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    • 4/5
      Great insights indeed. Would have served me more if there were more illustrations to buttress the 5 questions.
    • 4/5
      I don't understand why it is so much information about non profit organizations, is it title of book is wrong?