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What Makes an Effective Executive by Peter R Drucker 58 HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW Great managers may be charismatic or dull, generous or tightfisted, visionary or numbers oriented. But every effective executive follows eight simple practices. EFFECTIVE EXECUTIVE doe s not nee d t o b e a When Truman became president in 1945, he knew ex- leader in the sense that the term is now most actly what he wanted to do : complete the economic and A commonly used . Harry Truman did not have one social reforms of Roosevelts New Deal, which had been ounce of charisma, for example, yet he was among the deferred by World War li . As soon as he asked what most effective chief executives in U.S. history. Similarly, needed to be done, though, Truman realized that foreign some of the hest husiness and nonprofit CEOs Ive worked affairs had absolute priority. He organized his working with over a 65-year consulting career were not stereotyp- day so that it began with tutorials on foreign policy by the ical leaders . They were all over the map in terms of their secretaries of state and defense. As a result, he became personalities, attitudes, values, strengths, and weaknesses. the most effective president in foreign affairs the United They ranged from extroverted to nearly reclusive, from States has ever known . He contained Communism in both easygoing to controlling, from generous to parsimonious . Europe and Asia and, with the Marshall Plan, triggered What made them all effective is tha