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1 " Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves - their strengths, their values, and how they best perform. "
― Peter F. Drucker , Managing Oneself
2 " We hear a great deal of talk about the midlife crisis of the executive. It is mostly boredom. At 45, most executives have reached the peak of their business careers, and they know it. After 20 years of doing very much the same kind of work, they are very good at their jobs. But they are not learning or contributing or deriving challenge and satisfaction from the job. And yet they are still likely to face another 20 if not 25 years of work. That is why managing oneself increasingly leads one to begin a second career.There are three ways to develop a second career. The first is actually to start one. [...] The second way to prepare for the second half of your life is to develop a parallel career. [...] Finally, there are the social entrepreneurs.[...]There is one prerequisite for managing the second half of your life: You must begin doing so long before you enter it. "
3 " Like so many brilliant people, he believes that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work. "
4 " It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence. "
5 " Successful careers are not planned. They develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strengths, their method of work, and their values. "
6 " You should not change yourself, but create yourself, that mean build around your strengths and removing bad habits "
7 " Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships. "
8 " Of all the important pieces of self-knowledge, understanding how you learn is the easiest to acquire. "
9 " Schools everywhere are organized on the assumption that there is only one right way to learn and that it is the same way for everybody. "
10 " bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work. "
11 " It is a law of nature that two moving bodies in contact with each other create friction. This is as true for human beings as it is for inanimate objects. "
12 " This failure to ask reflects human stupidity less than it reflects human history. "
13 " If you have a goal that you still postpone, that means, it's not one of your strengths "
14 " others is required, it probably indicates a lack of courtesy—that is, a lack of manners. "
15 " Introverts do better alone with competition, extraverts do better in large group without competition "
16 " Strong decision makers often put somebody they trust into the number two spot as their adviser—and in that position the person is outstanding. But in the number one spot, the same person fails. He or she knows what the decision should be but cannot accept the responsibility of actually making it. "
17 " taking pride in such ignorance is self-defeating. "
18 " It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence "
19 " I saw no point in being the richest man in the cemetery. "
20 " It is incumbent on the people who work with them to observe them, to find out how they work, and to adapt themselves to what makes their bosses most effective. This, in fact, is the secret of “managing” the boss. "
