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Managing Oneself
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Managing Oneself

by Peter F. Drucker
February 2017
Beginner
128 pages
1h
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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PREFACE

Peter F. Drucker is widely regarded as the father of modern management, the man who brought rigorous thinking to the practice of running organizations and leavened it with a healthy dose of humanity. Two of his most enduring articles, “Managing Oneself” and “What Makes an Effective Executive,” are presented here, together for the first time.

These two classics present two sides of the same coin: first, how to manage yourself to be more focused and productive, and second, how to manage others to help them weed out unnecessary distractions and tasks.

The first is increasingly important as each of us becomes solely responsible for the trajectory of our ever-longer careers. Human resources and talent development are largely absent from most ...

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ISBN: 9781633693050