Strategy as subtraction
Peter Drucker
A management writer who treated effectiveness as a discipline of choices, contribution and responsibility. Planned abandonment asks whether yesterday’s work still earns its place.
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PDCAA / 03
CORE FRAMEWORK · ORIGINAL SUMMARY
If you were not already doing it, would you start it today?
Reverse-engineer. Don’t idolize.
What the herd copied
More targets and management slogans.
What actually worked
Re-examining work against current contribution.
What survives
Abandon obsolete work before funding new priorities.
Use it Monday at work
Make a company decision.
Review one recurring company report. Decide whether to keep, redesign or stop it and assign an owner.
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