Managing Oneself-Exerpts From Peter Drukers’ Book.
A key part of any success is self-understanding: you need to know how you’re ALREADY wired in order to capitalize on the innate strengths, talents, and convictions you already have.
Drucker guides you to ask yourself five questions:
1. What are my strengths?
Our culture teaches us to be well-rounded. Our schools force us to work on our weaknesses by taking classes on topics we will always find difficult. But the truth is that all of us have vast areas in which we are NOT strong and never will be excellent. But it often takes less effort to become outstanding in an area of strength than it takes to become mediocre in an area we have no strength. In work, you need to understand and focus on your strengths.
Our culture teaches us to be well-rounded. Our schools force us to work on our weaknesses by taking classes on topics we will always find difficult. But the truth is that all of us have vast areas in which we are NOT strong and never will be excellent. But it often takes less effort to become outstanding in an area of strength than it takes to become mediocre in an area we have no strength. In work, you need to understand and focus on your strengths.
2. How do I work?
What’s your learning style? How do you best take in information and turn it into results? If you know how you learn best, you’ll be able to understand more quickly and retain new knowledge much longer, and you’ll be much more skillful in your communication.
What’s your learning style? How do you best take in information and turn it into results? If you know how you learn best, you’ll be able to understand more quickly and retain new knowledge much longer, and you’ll be much more skillful in your communication.
3. What are my values?
What do you see as your most important responsibilities for living a worthy, ethical life? These are your emotional drivers that will either bring out your greatest strengths – or will leave you conflicted.
What do you see as your most important responsibilities for living a worthy, ethical life? These are your emotional drivers that will either bring out your greatest strengths – or will leave you conflicted.
4. Where do I belong?
For thousands of years of human history, people did not have a choice of where they should go and what they should do. If you were born a peasant, you did what others did and died a peasant. Today we not only have a choice – sometimes the choice is overwhelming. Here are the key questions to ask yourself about where you should be that will bring out the best in you and most benefit the people around you.
For thousands of years of human history, people did not have a choice of where they should go and what they should do. If you were born a peasant, you did what others did and died a peasant. Today we not only have a choice – sometimes the choice is overwhelming. Here are the key questions to ask yourself about where you should be that will bring out the best in you and most benefit the people around you.
5. What can I contribute?
In earlier eras, companies told business people what their contribution should be. Work was based on force. Today, work is based on choice. You must be intelligent and decide yourself. Based on your strengths, work style, and values, understand you how might make the greatest contribution to your workplace and the world.
In earlier eras, companies told business people what their contribution should be. Work was based on force. Today, work is based on choice. You must be intelligent and decide yourself. Based on your strengths, work style, and values, understand you how might make the greatest contribution to your workplace and the world.
Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves.
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