Managing Oneself

Question 1

Discover your strengths through

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Feedback analysis.
Whenever you make a key decision or take key action, write down what you expect will happen.
Nine or 12 months later, compare the actual results with your expectations

Question 2

Work on improving

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Your strengths

Question 3

Discover where your

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Intellectual arrogance is causing disabling ignorance and overcome it

Question 4

Remedy your

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Bad habits

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Manners are

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The lubricating oil of an organization
Say “please”, “thank you”, knowing a persons name, asking after her family

Question 6

It takes far more energy and work to

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Improve from incompetence to mediocrity than from first-rate performance to excellence

Question 7

How one performs is

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Unique, a matter of personality, formed long before a person goes to work

Question 8

Writers do not

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Learn by listening or reading, but by writing

Question 9

Some learn by taking

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Copious notes

Question 10

Some learn by

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Doing

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Some learn by

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Talking

Question 12

Key to performance is

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To act on knowing how you learn

Question 13

Dont change yourself, but

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Work hard to improve the way you perform. And try not to take on work you cannot perform or will perform poorly

Question 14

What kind of person

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Do I want to see in the mirror each morning?

Question 15

Organizations, like people, have

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Values

Question 16

Know three things about yourself

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Your strengths
How do I perform
What are my values?

Then you can decide where you belong

Question 17

Successful careers are not planned, they

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Develop

when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strengths, their method of work and their values

Question 18

Managing yourself requires

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Taking responsibilities for relationships

Question 19

To be effective you have to

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Know the strengths, the performance modes and the values of your coworkers

Question 20

Failure to ask

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Reflects human stupidity less than it reflects human history

Question 21

Good thing to say

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This is what I am good at. This is how I work. These are my values. This is the contribution I plan to concentrate on and the results I should be expected to deliver

Question 22

The existence of trust

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Between people does not necessarily mean that they like one another

Question 23

Knowledge workers …

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Are not “finished” after 40 years on the job, they are merely bored.

Question 24

Midlife crisis is

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Mostly boredom

Question 25

Wherever there is success

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There has to be failure

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Knowledge workers outlive

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Organizations, and they are mobile. Its creating a revolutuon in human affairs