Getting It Done

You developed the GettingItDone® management system and have been teaching it to Rotman MBA students for 19 years. What are its key principles?

The system applies the thinking of three well known management gurus. The first is the late-great Peter F. Drucker, the father of modern management. He had plenty of great ideas, but the one we embrace in our framework is management by objectives. I ran into him in the early 1970s and was lucky enough to get to know him pretty well in the late 1990s. I have been a devout apostle of his methods throughout my career.

The second guru is the late British-born management behaviouralist , who believed that that there was only one realistic and unambiguous definition of managerial effectiveness: The extent to which a leader achieves the output requirements of the position. management by objectives’.