财富忠告：定期坐下来，听听彼得·德鲁克怎么讲。

华伦（ 马鞍峰教会创始人，《标竿人生》 《The Purpose-Driven Life》的作者）

定期拜访管理大师，与他们经常保持联系。

定期坐下来，听听彼得·德鲁克怎么讲。

华伦：人一生中需要良师益友，需要榜样。榜样是那些你想要模仿的人。我的意见是，榜样就算了吧。我是认真的。你不知道人们最后是怎样结局的。不少人开始时一鸣惊人，看上去十分伟大，但后半生却一塌糊涂，糟糕透了。

我一生中至少有三位良师益友：父亲、Billy Graham和彼得·德鲁克。我从他们那儿学到了不同的东西。彼得·德鲁克教会我如何胜任自己的工作。25年前，25岁的我在一次CEO的小型讨论会上遇到了他。此后，我就经常给他打电话、写信，并经常拜访他。我现在仍然定期地坐下来，听听他怎么讲。他那些一句话的格言我能举出100条，它们都深深地刻在了我的脑子里。其中有一条是讲“效率”（efficiency）和“效益”（effectiveness）的区别，“效率”指的是“如何正确地做事情”；“效益”指的是“如何做正确的事情”。许多教堂，不仅仅教堂，企业和机构也一样――都是有效率的，但却没有效益。

彼得教我的另一项重要的东西是，结果常常产生于组织的外部，而不是内部。许多企业界、宗教界和其他组织中的人会认为，噢，我们没有干好，我们需要重组。他们做了些内部改革。然而，事实是，所有增长都产生于外部，来自于那些不使用你的产品、不接受你的信息、不享受你的服务的人。

Regularly sit at the feet of Peter Drucker.

Warren: In life you need mentors, and you need models. Models are the people you want to emulate. I recommend that your models be dead. I’m serious. You don’t know how people are going to finish up. A lot of people start out like bottle rockets. They look great, but then the last half of their life is chaos. That can be quite devastating.

In my life, I’ve had at least three mentors: my father, Billy Graham, and Peter Drucker. They each taught me different things. Peter Drucker taught me about competence. I met him about 25 years ago. I was invited to a small seminar of CEOs, and Peter was there. As a young kid—I was about 25—I began to call him up, write him, go see him. I still go set at the feet of Peter Drucker on a regular basis. I could give you 100 one-liners that Peter has honed into me. One of them is that there’s a difference between effectiveness and efficiency. Efficiency is doing things right, and effectiveness is doing right thing. A lot of churches—not just churches, but business and other organizations—are efficient, but they are not effective.

Another important thing that Peter has taught me is that results are always on the outside of your organization, not on the inside. Most people, when they’re in a company,or in a church, or in an organization, they think, Oh, we’re not doing well, we need to restructure. They make internal changes. But the truth is, all the growth is on the outside from people who are not using our product, not listening to your message, and not using your services.

摘自《财富》——易激扬编译

《易求无价之宝，难得良师益友 2012》摄于三清山。