Managing Oneself
by Peter F. Drucker
A sixty-page essay, originally in Harvard Business Review, on the questions a knowledge worker must answer: what are my strengths, how do I perform, what are my values, where do I belong, what should I contribute, and how do I plan the second half of life. It is the most useful career document ever written, readable in an hour.
Read it if…
you want a one-hour read that will organize your career thinking for decades.
Skip it if…
you want detail; it is deliberately compressed.
Three things you will actually use
- Build on strengths; fix only weaknesses that block them.
- Know whether you learn by reading, listening, writing or doing.
- Prepare the second half of life before you need it.
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Start feedback analysis: write what you expect from a key decision and compare it to the result in nine months.
Our verdict
Short, essential and permanent.
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