Hello, how are you? I hope you have a good day, and I am glad you are here. Today I’m going to talk about Managing Oneself by Peter F. Drucker. This is one of the shortest books I’ve ever read. It only has 58 pages, but every page has a gold nugget hidden in it. This book, as you can guess from the name, is about managing yourself. What do you have to do and how to do it, so you can live the best life you can live.
The 1st chapter in the book talks about different ways of learning: reader, listener, writer etc. What this book advises you is to find out your way of learning. The author mentions that you need to discover this yourself, and don’t follow the way the schools are doing the teaching. Every person is different.
The 2nd chapter talks about your personality in a social environment. Are you a people person or a loner? Again, you need to answer this question. If you are a loner and work in a networking environment, you are not going to like it. If you are a people person, working is a small office is going to make you sad. In addition, if you are a people person, you need to ask yourself what type of relationships you like to have with people. All this information is going to help you to decide what career or path you want to take in life
Another question that this book advises you to find the answer at is whether you like making decisions, or you just give advice. In my opinion, this is a very good question, for it answers what position you would like. If you like making decisions, maybe you should go for a position where you are required to be a leader. If you don’t like making decisions, maybe being a simple employee is not such a bad idea.
Last but not least, Managing Oneself by Peter F. Drucker says it’s very important to know your strengths and improve them. If you don’t know what you are good at, you are not going to know in what domain you want to work. Find your strengths and improve them to the master level. Only when you do this, you can think about mastering some other skill or strength as well, but in life, you should only stick with what you are best at.
Managing Oneself by Peter F. Drucker is an amazing book if you want to learn how to make goals. I would highly recommend you read the book, for there is much more information in this book, that I did not talk about and that is very helpful to your career life.
"Ideas don't move mountains, bulldozers do. Ideas tell the bulldozers where to go" - Managing Oneself by Peter F. Drucker
Thank you for stopping by and have a wonderful day!
Claudiu Angheluta.
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