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David's Time With Peter F. Drucker 2020.2.4 A century ago almost no one had even much contact with such organizations beyond an occasional trip to the local post office to mail a letter. And effectiveness as an executive means effectiveness in and through an organization. Until recently there was little reason for anyone to pay much attention to the effective executive or to worry about the low effectiveness of so many of them. Now, however, most people-espcially those with even a fair amount of schooling-can expect to spend all their working lives in an organization of some kind. Society hsa become a society of organization in all developed countries. Now the effectiveness of the individual depends increasingly on his or her ability to be effective in an organization, to be effective as an executive. And the effecitveness of a modern society and its ability to perform-perhaps even its ability to survive-depend increasingly on the effectiveness of the people who work as executives in the organization. The effecitve executive is fast becoming a key resource for society, and effectiveness as an executive a prime requirement for individual accomplishment and achievement-for young people at hte beginning of their working lives fully as much as for people in mid-career. 《The Effective Executive·Preface》Peter F.Drucker Claremont, California, New Year's Day,1985