Category: BookNotes

‘The Fall of Communism and the Christian Church’ by Joseph Pungur

By David Rising, September 18, 2009 6:43 pm

The author writes about ‘The Contribution of the Reformed Churches to the Fall of Communism in Hungary and Romania’. This article pertains to the theme of another posting on Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, and you are invited to read my comments on the subject at that posting.

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‘The Effective Executive’ by Peter Drucker

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By David Rising, July 4, 2009 10:34 pm

Peter F. Drucker. 1966. The Effective Executive. New York: HarperBusiness.

          Drucker is the doyen of business administration; he is to business consulting what Pele was to soccer. He is the starting point. This book shook me up. It changed my life. The key concept for me was the distinction between being efficient and being effective. Before reading the book, my focus and efforts were upon efficiency and little upon effectiveness. After reading it, at least yearn after effectiveness. There is hope: Drucker states: “I have not come across a single ‘natural’: an executive who was born effective. … Effectiveness can be learned—and it also has to be learned.”

          Below are links to read and download the booknotes on the book. Below that I will give some excerpts from my booknotes (notes on notes??).

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