Drucker: management by objectives, and what an organisation is for
You can be extremely busy in a club and produce nothing anyone outside it would notice. The difference between activity and result is one sentence beside each item.
Inside an organisation there are only efforts and costs; a result appears when somebody outside chooses you.
- How many meetings were heldHow many students came, and came back
- How enjoyable the board session wasWho outside the club is better off
- Only the president knows the objectivesEach person checks their own
List every activity the club runs and write one sentence against each: who outside the club has to be better off because of it, and how you will see that within a month. Keep the ones whose only answer is "we enjoy it" — but mark them in another colour and stop calling them results.
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