Managing Oneself: The Key to Success
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Peter Drucker is widely regarded as the father of modern management, offering penetrating insights into business that still resonate today. But Drucker also offers deep wisdom on how to manage our personal lives and how to become more effective leaders. In these two classic articles from Harvard Business Review, Drucker reveals the keys to becoming your own chief executive officer as well as a better leader of others. "Managing Oneself" identifies the probing questions you need to ask to gain the insights essential for taking charge of your career, while "What Makes an Effective Executive" outlines the key behaviors you must adopt in order to lead. Together, they chart a powerful course to help you carve out your place in the world.
Peter F. Drucker
Peter F. Drucker is considered the most influential management thinker ever. The author of more than twenty-five books, his ideas have had an enormous impact on shaping the modern corporation. Drucker passed away in 2005.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Thoroughly explained what needs to be done. One of the best books to plan goals and execute them successfully.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Some interesting takeaways from this article. I see why Drucker was so highly reguarded in the business literature but I think he is a smidgen dated. That being said, much of what he talks about is timeless and he has some very good solutions.
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Managing Oneself - Peter F. Drucker
Author
PREFACE
Peter F. Drucker is widely regarded as the father of modern management, the man who brought rigorous thinking to the practice of running organizations and leavened it with a healthy dose of humanity. Two of his most enduring articles, Managing Oneself
and What Makes an Effective Executive,
are presented here, together for the first time.
These two classics present two sides of the same coin: first, how to manage yourself to be more focused and productive, and second, how to manage others to help them weed out unnecessary distractions and tasks.
The first is increasingly important as each of us becomes solely responsible for the trajectory of our ever-longer careers. Human resources and talent development are largely absent from most of our lives, which means each of us is responsible for managing what will likely be a long and varied career. The keys? Cultivate a deep understanding of yourself by identifying your most valuable strengths and your most intractable weaknesses; articulate how you learn and work with others and what your most deeply held values are; and describe the type of work environment where you can make the greatest contribution.
Only when you operate with a combination of your strengths and a disciplined self-knowledge can you achieve true and lasting excellence. Managing Oneself
identifies the questions you need to ask yourself to gain the insights essential for taking charge of your career.
The second—being effective as an executive—is an organizational necessity. Without knowing where to spend your time and efforts and how to help others, you cannot expect to successfully run a business or nonprofit. Drucker provides a framework that shows you how to focus on tasks that are imperative, that only you can do. Effective executives follow the same eight practices: They ask, What needs to be done?
They ask, What is right for the enterprise?
They develop action plans. They take responsibility for decisions. They take responsibility for communicating. They focus on opportunities rather than problems. They run productive meetings. And they think and say we
rather than