Ineffective Immediately
“Ninety percent of what we call ‘management’ consists of making it difficult for people to get get things done” – Peter Drucker
If you believe this classic Drucker quote to be true, then whenever you receive an executive e-mail that contains the standard MBA textbook words “effective immediately”, mentally replace them with “ineffective immediately”. That way, you won’t be disappointed or surprised when your local work environment doesn’t change at all, or it changes for the worse.
To be fair, managers, like you and me, are just trying their best to make things better for all stakeholders. It’s just that they, for the most part (90% to be exact) have no clue on how to go about doing that.
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10% is the interesting number. Based on the Druker that would be the percentage of managers that are effective. That is also the percentage used when discussing the percentage of software developers that carry a software organization. 10% do the majority of the work. So is that percentage that would be effective at any position of an organization.
Hi Ray,
Thanx for the feedback. I thought that Pareto’s 80-20 rule applied more to the situations that you describe. Drucker just ratcheted it up by 10% based on his many years of personal experience 🙂