1. MANAGING
ONESELF
BY PETER F. DRUCKER
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2. Presented By
Usman Hussain
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3. Peter F. Drucker

4. About
the
author
 Born in Vienna in 1909
 Educated in Austria and England
 Doctorate in Law from Germany
 Came to the US in 1937
 Taught and Consulted
 Bennington College
 New York University
 Claremont Graduate School (Since 1971)

5. The Practice of
Management
PETER DRUCKER
1954

6. Background
Success in the knowledge
economy comes to those who
know themselves-their
strengths, their values, and
how they best perform.
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7. Research Question 7

8. .
What Brain
Science Tells
Us About How
to Excel ?????
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9. Sub Questions
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10. Sub Questions
 What are my most valuable strengths and most dangerous
weaknesses?
 How do I learn and work with others?
 What are my most deeply held values?
 And in what type of work environment can I make the
greatest contribution?
 Want to read more about how to become your own Chief
Executive Officer and drive your professional career?

11. .
Vocabulary
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Self-efficacy: believe in one’s ability to do a
task
Self-monitoring: observing one’s own
behavior and adapting it to the situations.
Social Cognitive Theory: version of the
Social Learning Theory presented by
Bandura (Standford Psychologist), that
postulate that there are dynamic
relationships among personal factors, the
social and physical environment, and
behavior (Bandura, 1986)
A person can be both an agent for and a
respondent to change.

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Summary of Findings

14. What are my
strengths ?
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15. What
Are My
Strengt
hs ?
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 It is easier to know what we are not
good at- than to know what are we
good at.
 A person can perform only from
strength
 Discover your strengths through
feedback analysis.
 Whenever you make a decision, write
down what you expect will happen.
One year later, compare the actual
results with your expectations

16. How .
Do I
Perform?
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17. How Do I Perform?
 Different people work and perform differently
 Too many people work in ways that are not
their ways.
 How one performs is unique: matter of
personality
 Just as what a person is good at or not good
at is a given.
 Am I a reader or a listener?
 How do I learn?
 Work hard to improve the way you perform
(do not try to change yourself)
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18. What Are My
Values?
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19. What Are My Values?
Use the mirror test
Value system of an organization and
yours
To be effective in an organization, a
person’s values must be compatible
with the organization’s values (not
the same but close enough to coexist)
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20. .
Where Do I
Belong?
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21. Where
Do I
Belong?
Or where I do not belong…
A big or a small
organization?
“Yes, I will do that”
If I am not a decision maker
I should have learned to say
no to a decision maker
assignment.
When we answer to the three
previous questions, I can and
should decide where I
belong.
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22. .
What Should I
Contribute?
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23. What
Shoul
d I
Contri
bute?
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What does the situation
requires?
Given my strengths, my way
of performing, and my values,
how can I make the greatest
contribution to what needs to
be done?
What results have to be
achieved to make a
difference?

24. What
Should
I
Contri
bute?
Cont.
 Where and how can I achieve
results that will make a difference
within the next year and half?
 The results should be hard to
achieve, but also they should
be within reach
 The results must be meaningful
(they should make a
difference)
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25. Responsibility
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For
Relationships
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26. Respons
ibility For
Relation
ships
First is to accept the fact that other people
are as much individuals as you yourself
are.
Taking responsibility for communication
Today the great majority of people
work with others who have different
tasks and responsibilities.
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27. The .
Second
Half Of Your
Life
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28. The Second Half Of Your
Life
You must Begin long
before you enter the
second half of your
life!
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29. The
Seco
nd
Half
Of
Your
Life
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 Managing oneself increasingly leads
one to begin a second career:
 Start one (move to another
organization
 Develop a parallel career
 Social entrepreneurs (another
activity, usually a nonprofit)
 People who manage the second half
of their lives may always be a minority
 The majority may “retire on the job”

30. .
Strengths of
article
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31. Strength of article
Continuous feed back analysis
You can analysis whether you
are a reader or a listener
You can learn most deeply held
values
Know about own self to become
own chief executive officer
Remain what you are don’t try to

32. Weaknesses
.
of Article
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33. Weaknesses of Article
To much monotony.
Just few examples.
Repetition of same agenda.
Little bit confusing.
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34. Learning from
Article
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38. Comparison of
article with my
life
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39. . Comparison of article
with my life
Knowing my strengths:
Feedback analysis
Habits and preferences will reflect in the period
of 2-3 years feedback analysis.
My performance in tasks:
Under pressure I am a good worker.
Generally I am not a good team player and at
times I lack confidence while working on a
project.

40. .
Fear of loss and failure.
I am a listener not a reader. To
manage myself I need to develop
reading skills and a combination of
both listening and reading skills.
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What are my values:
To live a worthy life my values are
based on Islamic values and I
prefer being ethical and moral as
thee society and my working place
requirements are.
My values and values of
organization where I work should
be inline other wise my
performance will go down.

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Where do I belong ?
To get fit in an organizational structure.
I need to go from a transformation
process, based on my strengths, work
styles and value
IMPLICATIONS
Only when I operate from a
combination of my strength, self
knowledge I can achieve true and
lasting excellence
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