The path to your professional success starts with a critical look in the mirror.
If you read nothing else on managing yourself, read these 10 articles (plus the bonus article How Will You Measure Your Life?” by Clayton M. Christensen). We’ve combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles to select the most important ones to help you maximize yourself.
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself will inspire you to:
Stay engaged throughout your 50+-year work life
Tap into your deepest values
Solicit candid feedback
Replenish physical and mental energy
Balance work, home, community, and self
Spread positive energy throughout your organization
Rebound from tough times
Decrease distractibility and frenzy
Delegate and develop employees’ initiative
This collection of best-selling articles includes: bonus article How Will You Measure Your Life?” by Clayton M. Christensen, “Managing Oneself,” “Management Time: Who’s Got the Monkey?” “How Resilience Works,” “Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time,” “Overloaded Circuits: Why Smart People Underperform,” “Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life,” “Reclaim Your Job,” “Moments of Greatness: Entering the Fundamental State of Leadership,” “What to Ask the Person in the Mirror,” and “Primal Leadership: The Hidden Driver of Great Performance.”
“The need for managing one’s self is creating a revolution in human affairs.” Peter Drucker (1999) This is one in a series of volumes that anthologize what the editors of the Harvard Business Review consider to be the “must reads” in a given business subject area, in this instance self-management. I have no quarrel with any of their selections, each of which is eminently deserving of inclusion. Were all of these article purchased separately as reprints, the total cost would be $60 and the value of any one of them exceeds that. Given the fact that Amazon now sells this one for only $15.14,…
Know Yourself – Manage Yourself Thales was an ancient Greek philosopher and one of the group of philosophers known as the Seven Sages. When he was asked what was easy, he replied, “To give advice.” And when asked what was difficult, he said, “To know thyself.” I would add that even after you have a fairly good idea of who you are, actually managing yourself still requires quite a bit of effort. But if you are looking for a great resource to assist you in knowing yourself and then managing yourself, this is one of the best…