Managing Oneself. Peter Ferdinand Drucker

      Harvard Business Review

       CLASSICS

      MANAGING

       ONESELF

      Peter F. Drucker

      Harvard Business Press

       Boston, Massachusetts

      Copyright 2008 Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation

      Originally published in Harvard Business Review in March 1999

      and January 2005

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909−2005.

      Managing oneself / Peter F. Drucker.

      p. cm. — (Harvard Business review classics)

      Reprint of an article from the Harvard business review. Reprinted

       earlier in 1999 as Reprint 99204.

      ISBN 978-1-4221-2312-6

      1. Career development. 2. Career changes. 3. Self-management

       (Psychology) 4. Self-actualization (Psychology) 5. Success—

      Psychological aspects. I. Harvard business review. II. Title.

      HF5381.D677 2008

      650.1—dc22

      2007037486

      The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Publications and Documents in Libraries and Archives Z39.48−1992.

      CONTENTS

       The Harvard Business Review Classics Series

       Managing Oneself

       What are My Strengths?

       How do I Perform?

       What are My Values?

       Where do I Belong?

       What should I Contribute?

       Responsibility for Relationships

       The Second Half of your Life

       About the Author

       Also by this Author

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