The Timeless Peter Drucker
Nonprofit leaders today recognize the great benefit of implementing solid business principles and practices. In a recent Nonprofit Learning Point class on strategic management, Wally Stettinius often drew on the wisdom of revered business thinker Peter Drucker. Drucker began writing his timeless business treatises in the 1930s and continued up until 2005 when he died at nearly 94 years of age. My personal favorite is The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask about Your Organization. In this book, Drucker proposes those questions, all of which can be translated easily into nonprofit application: What is our mission? Who is our customer? What does the customer value? What are our results? What is our plan?
If you were drawn into the nonprofit world because of mission and find yourself in need of great business management tools, read Drucker. If you’ve been in management for a long time but haven’t read much of Drucker yet, read some more. You won’t be disappointed.
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