華倫（ 馬鞍峰教會創(chuàng)始人,，《標竿人生》 《The Purpose-Driven Life》的作者）

定期拜訪管理大師，與他們經(jīng)常保持聯(lián)系,。

定期坐下來,，聽聽彼得·德魯克怎么講。

華倫：人一生中需要良師益友,，需要榜樣,。榜樣是那些你想要模仿的人。我的意見是,，榜樣就算了吧,。我是認真的。你不知道人們最后是怎樣結(jié)局的,。不少人開始時一鳴驚人,，看上去十分偉大，但后半生卻一塌糊涂,，糟糕透了,。

我一生中至少有三位良師益友：父親、Billy Graham和彼得·德魯克。我從他們那兒學(xué)到了不同的東西,。彼得·德魯克教會我如何勝任自己的工作,。25年前，25歲的我在一次CEO的小型討論會上遇到了他,。此后,，我就經(jīng)常給他打電話、寫信,，并經(jīng)常拜訪他,。我現(xiàn)在仍然定期地坐下來，聽聽他怎么講,。他那些一句話的格言我能舉出100條,，它們都深深地刻在了我的腦子里。其中有一條是講“效率”（efficiency）和“效益”（effectiveness）的區(qū)別,，“效率”指的是“如何正確地做事情”,；“效益”指的是“如何做正確的事情”。許多教堂,，不僅僅教堂,，企業(yè)和機構(gòu)也一樣――都是有效率的，但卻沒有效益,。

彼得教我的另一項重要的東西是，結(jié)果常常產(chǎn)生于組織的外部,，而不是內(nèi)部,。許多企業(yè)界、宗教界和其他組織中的人會認為,，噢,，我們沒有干好，我們需要重組,。他們做了些內(nèi)部改革,。然而，事實是,，所有增長都產(chǎn)生于外部,，來自于那些不使用你的產(chǎn)品、不接受你的信息,、不享受你的服務(wù)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《財富》——易激揚編譯

《易求無價之寶，難得良師益友 2012》攝于三清山,。