Taking Stock

Question 1

What Great Managers Do

Answer 1

 Capitalize on employee’s strengths
◦ Find the employee a partner with 
complementary talents
◦ Reconfigure work to neutralize weaknesses
 Activate employee’s strengths
◦ Recognition (from whom)
 Tailor coaching to learning style
◦ Analyzer, Doer, Watcher

How would you apply these ideas
to managing yourself?

Question 2

Managing Oneself

Answer 2

Drucker (1999; 2005)
 What are my strengths?
 How do I work?
 What are my values?
 Where do I belong?
 What can I contribute?

Question 3

How do I motivate myself?

Answer 3

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Question 4

How Will You
Measure Your Life?
Clay Christensen

Answer 4

How can I be sure…
 that I’ll be happy in my career?
 that my relationships with my spouse and 
my family become an enduring source of 
happiness?
 I’ll stay out of jail?

Question 5

How Will You
Measure Your Life?
Clay Christensen

Answer 5

Create a Strategy
for Your Life
What is the purpose of your life?

Allocate your
Resources
are you allocating for the short term or for the long term

Create a Culture
What cultural characteristics have
you been developing—
intentionally, or unintentionally?

Avoid the “Marginal 
Costs” Mistake
Just this once…
Core values can serve as your 
touchstone…What are yours?

Remember the 
Importance of 
Humility
There is always something to be 
learned if one keeps an open mind 

Choose the
Right Yardstick
What is the metric by which your
life will be judged a success?

Question 6

Some Parting Thoughts

Answer 6

Don’t let your habits trap you
Use what you learn
Seek first to understand
Keep reflecting and learning
Build positive relationships
Think holistically