Most people who play golf play it for recreational purposes, but that doesn't mean that they don't want to be good at it. The problem with improving yourself as a golf player, even if you do it just to have fun with your friends on weekends, is that it can be very tough without the appropriate guidance, and seeing how a personal coach is too large of an investment for most people, you have to rely on practicing your game based on some helpful guidelines. Therefore, if you want to improve yourself…
The Summary of “Managing Oneself by Peter F. Drucker” Nowadays, the environment that we live in is unpredictable. Opportunities can come in various times, places and ways. If someone have got ambition and smart, that person can rise to the top of his/her chosen profession, regardless of where he/she started out. In order to manage ourselves, we will have to develop ourselves then place ourselves where we can make the greatest contribution and knowing how and when to change the work we do. As…
Managing Oneself By: Peter Drucker Tami Cusick Loma Linda University EMMC 453 The article “Managing Oneself” is mainly about that in order to be successful you have to know and understand yourself. I agreed with Drucker that if you have ambition and smarts and work your way up in your profession that it doesn’t matter where you started. There are many upper level managers that started as a field employee within AMR. It is clear that they were ambitious and chose to continue…
As a graduate of Psychology, I agree with Drucker’s perspective on cultivating a deeper understanding of oneself to achieve lasting excellence. However, determining one’s learning style and values are not the only catalysts for success. From a psychological perspective, how and why an individual succeeds may be governed by several other factors: his attitude, abilities, his capacity to process thoughts, and motivation among others. Drucker’s point of view is mainly geared towards “nature” and does…
and have a better relationship with them. Having the right team of individuals who complement each other working towards a common goal makes managing so much easier, ultimately creating a successful business. Peter Drucker in his article, Managing Oneself, posed a number of questions one should answer in becoming self aware. I do not know how to answer these questions; I am yet to figure out where I stand in this life of mine and who I am as an individual. This is rather scary to be honest, not knowing…
Spring Awakening Psychoanalysis Discovering Oneself As children go through the adolescence stage of life they tend to go through different difficulties and hardships, and respond by using natural defense mechanisms to cope. Upon psychoanalyzing Spring Awakening, a children’s tragedy by Frank Wedekind, and the characters within you can get a better understanding of the adolescent stages of life. In Spring Awakening, the characters are going through there adolescent stage of life and their parents…
Hating Oneself Ronald F. Currie JR.’s “Loving the Dead” is a story about a man who is filled with hurt and sadness due to the death of his grandparents. The speaker is the grandson who hates himself for not being there for his grandparents before they passed. Currie uses the word hate metaphorically for passion, because the speaker experiences strong feelings from memories that are brought on with the changes in seasons. Can we truly hate someone we love so much or is the hate aimed at oneself.…
Managing Oneself and How to Makes Friends and Influence People People live in the world where socialization has become a necessity. Without being able to reach out to others, a person cannot experience growth and development. However, dealing with other people requires self-management. Meaning, a person should know himself best because it is only in this understanding that he is able to make friends with the people surrounding him, or even influence them. In light of this assertion, this paper…
To define oneself as a communicator is to understand how the process of communication works. Julia Scherba de Valenzuela best defines communication as, "any act by which one person gives to or receives from another person information about that person's needs, desires, perceptions, knowledge, or affective states. Communication may be intentional or unintentional, may involve conventional or unconventional signals, may take linguistic or non linguistic forms, and may occur through spoken or other…
This article helped me to develop a clear mind set about independent learning and how important it is for the naturel human being to manage oneself. Personally, It’s important for me to know what my straights are to help me to manage myself where I can produce positive results by improving it and identify incompetency on me and avoid it. Having the knowledge and control upon my strengths and weaknesses can help me to avoid intellectual disruption and also will help me to avoid manipulation from negative…