Recommendation on Hiring an Executive Vice President of Operation

To: Tom Smith President of ABC Corporation

From: xxxxxx xx, SID: 28903x04

Date: March 29, 2015

Re: Recommendation on Hiring an Executive Vice President of Operation

After we talked about hiring an executive vice president of operation, I am considering the key criteria of this very important job. At your request, I read Peter F. Drucker’s article, “What Makes an Effective Executive” in the June 2004 issue of Harvard Business Review. In the article, the author claims several practices that an effective executive should have. I think this article is valuable for us to refer. Among the identified eight practices in the article, the following three practices are the top ones that you should consider.

• To ask what needs to be done. An effective executive should take the question seriously – what needs to be done. It is crucial for success. Effective executives usually take two steps to make sure what they need to do. By doing so, the executives will be able to set a clear goal to perform.

• Concentrate one urgent task if at all possible. Focusing on one task, rather than two or more, is more efficient and more achievable.

• Decompose the project and set the best suited task as a priority. An effective executive tends to focus on job they’ll do especially well. It’s the most efficient way to show the top management performance; therefore it shows the enterprise performs.

• To develop action plans. Knowledge is useless to executives until it has been translated into deeds. Before jumping into actions, the executive should develop an action plan. There are five essential components of an effective plan ¬¬– defining desired result, controlling probable restraints, revising in the future, checking the results and managing the time. Each of the components