HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself (with bonus article "How Will You Measure Your Life?" by Clayton M. Christensen) Kindle Edition

A lot of the practices that this book recommends are those that have become mainstays of the modern corporate culture and environment. On average the essays are at least 16-20 years old.Some of the advice on personal management and organization can be relevant but is now also managed through a lot of journaling apps, therapists and other support communities. There's also a sense of Serving the Corporation's interests which underlies some of the essays, and that attitude hasn't necessarily aged well in a business climate geared towards more entrepreneurship.

Ten articles relate to managing yourself to be happy in your career and personal life. Learn, grow into responsibilities, be recognized, and create a culture on agreeing on what they want from participation and on agreeing to what actions, to develop culture into embracing priorities and following procedures. Manage yourself by asking yourself these questions; what are my strengths, how do I work, what are my values, where do I belong, and what should I contribute. The best ways for a manager to be in control regarding his boss are; recommend and take resulting action, act, but advice at once, or act on your own and then routinely report. Resilient people accept reality, belief deeply that life is meaningful, and have an uncanny ability to improvise. Putting in longer hours to respond to the rising demands will inevitably take its toll, physically, emotionally, and mentally. Individuals need to recognize the cost of energy-depleting behaviors and then take responsibility to change them by going to bed early, exercising, loose weight, or have breakfast or dinner with your family. Attention Deficit Trait (ADT), caused by brain overload, is an epidemic in organizations nowadays. To combat ADT promote positive emotions, take control of your brain and organize yourself by handling things once only. Total leadership helps you mitigate a range of problems from making trade-offs. It starts with reflecting, then brainstorm possibilities, choose three most promising experiments, and measure progress. Everyone complains about not having enough time to deal with all the demands on them mostly coming from a most fragmented day. Carefully set boundaries and priorities to achieve far more than busy managers do. To elevate the performance of others, we have to elevate ourselves in the fundamental state of leadership. Ask yourself the question: "What result do I want to create"? It leads us from problem solving to purpose finding. Leaders should ask themselves seven types of questions on some periodic basis, to improve performance and preempt serious business problems about; vision and priorities, managing time, feedback, succession, evaluation and alignment, leading under pressure, an staying true to yourself. A leader's mood has the greatest impact on performance when it is upbeat, but it must also be in tune with those that surround him. A leaders uses four components of emotional intelligence; self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management, to have resonance with their organization. To rewire the brain toward more emotional intelligence there is a five parts process; imagining your ideal self, come to terms with them, plan to bridge the gap, practice, and create a community of colleagues and family.

This booklet "On Managing Yourself" from the Harvard Business Review contains many great tips on self-management that would benefit both one's professional and personal life. The eleven articles in this collection urge the reader to define a purpose for life, to identify personal strengths and weaknesses and how one works most effectively, and to maintain a proper energy level and practice resilience. Leadership tips within include reclaiming time and making the most effective use of one's workday, practicing self-examination and obtaining needed feedback, and cultivating the mindset and emotional state most conducive to good leadership. This is another solid set of articles from the Harvard Business Review.

I have ADHD. Such a challenge to carry the responsibility of a manager who can barely manage himself, let alone 16 other people. but this book provided great practical tools which I go back to over and over. well worth the purchase!

It’s a collection of 10 stories ranging from solid to great. My primary takeaway is that the keys to success as a leader are not locked in some treasure chest on a remote island — they are what everyone thinks they are. The hard part is executing day to day: being fair rather than nice, sticking to the priorities that matter in the face of conflict, communicating more often and in more detail than your gut tells you to, managing your time, and so on. I now have two pages of practical tips I’ll implement.

This book is a mix of interesting reads and silly business school dogma. Surely HBS should be able to find more new and interesting ideas. Perhaps it is merely edited poorly. In any case, it is a short read and the good articles make it worth it.

Great lessons in this book. If you have a lot going on and need help managing your time to ensure you accomplish your tasks success, this book has some great advice.

This book is so awesome. It helped me reset when I was approaching burnout. You may have encountered pieces of this information at some point in your career, but it is nice to have it compiled. This books also demands a certain level of introspection. It can potentially be a quick read, but I enjoyed reading a chapter or two and subsequently reflecting on the practical application to my life.

This HBR book, On Managing Yourself is a must read. Help with defining and identifying your ideal Life Plan for both your immediate career and the one in your second half of your life. For me, it helped with my second half plans, pity I had not read this book early on in my career.

clear and simple presentation of essential points.

Demaciado bueno! Te enseña muchos trucos sobre management y como no undirte en un vaso de agua, muy buenos ejemplos, en lo que conlleva a las relaciones laborales, la presión, tanto en el trabajo como en tu vida personal.

Leitura obrigatoria para todos que tem o desafio da performance no seu cotidiano. ajuda tanto no auto-gerenciamento como na liderança de times. bela seleção de textos.

The articles are nice and have a lot of practical suggestions. Putting things into practice is what will make this book more useful. And that is the tough bit, isn't it?