{"id":2440,"date":"2014-01-05T13:59:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T21:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/?p=2440"},"modified":"2015-01-28T12:58:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T20:58:39","slug":"peter-drucker-managing-oneself-know-thyself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/peter-drucker-managing-oneself-know-thyself\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Thyself Helps You Manage Yourself by Peter Drucker"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Managing Oneself”, as written by Peter Drucker, may be a modern business addition to the foundation of “Know thyself,” the famous saying from the Greek Temple of Apollo at Delphi, and “To thine own self be true” in Shakespeare’s Hamlet (although this phrase’s speaker in the play, Polonius, gives questionable advice which suitably complicates our whole “knowing”).<\/p>\n

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Peter Drucker and Managing Oneself – Business Strategy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In today’s world, we all know that we must manage our own career and life.\u00a0 We all have tremendous options and opportunities. Drucker says that “with opportunity comes responsibility” and that “knowledge workers, effectively, must be their own chief executive officers”.\u00a0 To do this well, we “need to cultivate a deep understanding of yourself.”\u00a0 A 12-page Harvard Business Review article can be found here<\/a>, and a longer book is available<\/a> and the Harvard Business Review has also created a collection of articles on this topic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Peter Drucker Focuses on a Few Key Questions<\/h2>\n
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