Management Matters

Chapter 1

Managing yourself

What topics are covered in this chapter?

• Assessing your strengths and weaknesses
• Improving your personal effectiveness
• Tapping into your motivation
• Picking and choosing self-improvement battles
• Pushing yourself to succeed

Before you ask how to manage other people, it is worth pausing to ask how you manage yourself. We are, after all, each our own organisation. We choose how to manage our physical plant; our bodies, our minds, how to invest our time, energies, emotions and financial resources. Whether we recognise it or not, we each have personal balance sheets, made up of varying assets and liabilities, and income statements which measure our progress. We can choose to work late, sacrificing sleep, knowing that ...