20 Questions with Peter Drucker (How to Drucker-ize Your Nonprofi)

Wow, I really had no idea what I was getting into when I typed all of that up.

For those who missed it, we just reviewed each of Peter Drucker's "5 Most Important questions" and their subsidiary questions...

Here they all are again, in review:

1. What Is Our Mission?
   
   
   
   1. What is the Current Mission?
   
   
   2. What are Our Challenges?
   
   
   3. What are Our Opportunities?
   
   
   4. Does the Mission Need to be Revisited?


2. Who Is Our Customer?
   
   
   
   1. Who are Our Primary and Supporting Customers?
   
   
   2. How will Our Customers Change?


3. What Does the Customer Value?
   
   
   
   1. What do We Believe Our Primary and Supporting
      Customers alue?
   
   
   2. What Knowledge do We Need to Gain from Our Customers?
   
   
   3. How will I Participate in Gaining This Knowledge?


4. What Are Our Results?
   
   
   
   1. How do We Define Results?
   
   
   2. Are We Successful?
   
   
   3. How Should We Define Results?
   
   
   4. What must We Strengthen or Abandon?


5. What Is Our Plan?
   
   
   
   1. Should the Mission be Changed?
   
   
   2. What are Our Goals?

Thanks again to Bob Buford for reconnecting me with these ideas.

What are your overall impressions? Is this sort of work useful to nonprofit organizations? How much easier would your job be if your organization had a clear answer to all of these questions -- and aligned its energies and resources accordingly?

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How to Drucker-ize Your Nonprofit: Question Twenty

As another subsidiary of the fifth/final question that Peter Drucker thinks you should ask about your organization, per my previous blog(s), we have the FINAL question of this entire series...

What are Our Goals?

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How to Drucker-ize Your Nonprofit: Question Nineteen

And a subsidiary of the fifth/final question that Peter Drucker thinks you should ask about your organization, per my previous blog(s)...

Should the Mission be Changed?

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How to Drucker-ize Your Nonprofit: Question Eighteen

And now the fifth and FINAL question that Peter Drucker thinks you should ask about your organization, per my previous blog(s)...

What Is Our Plan?

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How to Drucker-ize Your Nonprofit: Question Seventeen

As still yet another subsidiary to the fourth big question that Peter Drucker thinks you should ask about your organization, per my previous blog(s)...

What must We Strengthen or Abandon?

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How to Drucker-ize Your Nonprofit: Question Sixteen

As yet another subsidiary to the fourth big question that Peter Drucker thinks you should ask about your organization, per my previous blog(s)...

How Should We Define Results?

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How to Drucker-ize Your Nonprofit: Question Fifteen

As another subsidiary to the fourth big question that Peter Drucker thinks you should ask about your organization, per my previous blog(s)...

Are We Successful?

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How to Drucker-ize Your Nonprofit: Question Fourteen

As a subsidiary to the fourth big question that Peter Drucker thinks you should ask about your organization, per my previous blog(s)...

How do We Define Results?

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How to Drucker-ize Your Nonprofit: Question Thirteen

The fourth big question that Peter Drucker thinks you should ask about your organization, per my previous blog(s)...

What Are Our Results?

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How to Drucker-ize Your Nonprofit: Question Twelve

As another subsidiary to the third big question that Peter Drucker thinks you should ask about your organization, per my previous blog(s)...

How will I Participate in Gaining This Knowledge (that We Need to Gain from Our Customers)?

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How to Drucker-ize Your Nonprofit: Question Eleven

As another subsidiary to the third big question that Peter Drucker thinks you should ask about your organization, per my previous blog(s)...

What Knowledge do We Need to Gain from Our Customers?

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speaking truth to power...

“Ninety percent of what we call 'management' consists of making it difficult for people to get things done”

-         Peter Drucker

 Some analysis of this idea:

http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2004/11/04.html#a1412

 

And some more nice quote from Master Drucker:

http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/L001910/

 

I’m just sayin’ . . .

How to Drucker-ize Your Nonprofit: Question Ten

As a subsidiary to the third big question that Peter Drucker thinks you should ask about your organization, per my previous blog(s)...

What do We Believe Our Primary and Supporting Customers Value?

We're now halfway through all of the questions in this exercise. Or, as Drucker loyalist Bob Buford might say, we are at Halftime.

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How to Drucker-ize Your Nonprofit: Question Nine

Why Peter Drucker's Ideas Still Matter

The third big question that Peter Drucker thinks you should ask about your organization, per my previous blog(s)...

What Does the Customer Value?

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How to Drucker-ize Your Nonprofit: Question Eight

"Ninety percent of what we call 'management' consists of making it difficult for people to get things done."

As a second follow-up for the second big question that Drucker thinks you should ask about your organization, per my previous blog...

How will Our Customers Change?

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How to Drucker-ize Your Nonprofit: Question Seven

Peter Drucker -- The Man who Invented Management

As an initial follow-up for the second big question that Drucker thinks you should ask about your organization, per my previous blog...

Who are Our Primary and Supporting Customers?

Here is another hint:
They are still not likely to the people that your current strategic plan identifies.

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How to Drucker-ize Your Nonprofit: Question Six

Why Drucker now? Ohhhhhm....

And now for the second big question, per my previous blog...

Who Is Our Customer?

Here is a hint:
It's probably not the person who uses your services.

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How to Drucker-ize Your Nonprofit: Question Five

I've got something to ask you, leader to leader...

As a final subsidiary question" beneath the original one posed in my previous blog... here is one of the most important questions you will ever ask about your organization:

Does the Mission Need to be Revisited?

For a preview of what's coming up in the days ahead, check out the full outline of The Drucker Foundation Self-Assessment Tool: Participant Workbook.

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How to Drucker-ize Your Nonprofit: Question Four

Peter Drucker wants to lead you to a land of opportunity... a land of poolside rocking chairs.

As yet another "subsidiary question" beneath the one posed in my previous blog... here is one of the most important questions you will ever ask about your organization:

What are Our Opportunities?

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How to Drucker-ize Your Nonprofit: Question Three

Inside Drucker's Brain (even a wise man could get lost)

As another "subsidiary question" beneath the one posed in my previous blog... here is one of the most important questions you will ever ask about your organization:

What are Our Challenges?

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