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The Peter F. Drucker Reader
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The Peter F. Drucker Reader

by Peter F. Drucker, Harvard Business Review
November 2016
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
192 pages
4h 18m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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Managing Oneself

HISTORY’S GREAT ACHIEVERS—a Napoléon, a da Vinci, a Mozart—have always managed themselves. That, in large measure, is what makes them great achievers. But they are rare exceptions, so unusual both in their talents and their accomplishments as to be considered outside the boundaries of ordinary human existence. Now, most of us, even those of us with modest endowments, will have to learn to manage ourselves. We will have to learn to develop ourselves. We will have to place ourselves where we can make the greatest contribution. And we will have to stay mentally alert and engaged during a 50-year working life, which means knowing how and when to change the work we do.

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ISBN: 9781633692206