ABSTRACT
Self-development of the effective executive is central to the development of the organization, whether it be a business, a government agency, a research laboratory, a hospital, or a military service. It is the way toward performance of the organization. Organizations as well as executives need to work systematically on effectiveness and need to acquire the habit of effectiveness. They need to learn to feed their opportunities and to starve their problems. They need to work on making strength productive. Self-development of the executive towards effectiveness is the only integrator available. It is the only way in which organization goals and individual needs can come together. The manual worker, so at least the nineteenth century believed, had only economic goals and was content with economic rewards. That, as the ‘human relations’ school demonstrated, was far from the whole truth. The chapter also presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in this book.
