Managing Oneself - created from Mind Map

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The Idea in brief:

What are my strengths?

How Do I Perform?

Where are my values?

Where do I belong?

Living in an age of unprecedented opportunity

It's up to you to carve out your place in the work world and know when to change course.

You need to cultivate a deep understanding of yourself.

Only when you operate from a combination of your strengths and self-knowledge can you achieve true excellence.

If you got ambition, drive, and smarts, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession.

Companies today aren't managing their knowledge worlers' careers.

The only way to discover your strenghts is through feedback analysis.

Work on improving your strengths.

Discover your intelectual arrogance

Several implications for action follow from feedback analysis.

Concentrate on your strengths

Put yourself where your strengths can produce results

Analysis will rapidly show where you need to improve your skills or acquiere new ones.

Overcome it

Feedback reveal when the problema is a lack of manners.

Comparing your expectations with your results also indicates what not to do.

One should waste as Little effort as posible on improving áreas of low competence.

It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity tan it takes to improv from first-rate performance to excelence.

It's a matter of personality

Just as people achieve results by doing what they are good at, they also achieve results by working in ways that they best perform.

A few common personality traits usually determine how a person performs.

Am I a reader or a listener?

How do I learn?

Few listeners can be made, or can make themselves, into competent readers and vice versa.

Do not try to change yourself- you are unlikely to succeed.

Work hard in the way you perform.

Try not to take on work you cannot perfor, or will only perform poorly.

To Work in an organization whose value system is unacceptable or incompatible with one's own, condemns a person both to frustration and to nonperformance.

TO be effective in an organization, a person's values must be compatible with the organization's values.

They do not need to be the same, but they must be close enough to coexist.

Highly gifted people, do not really know where they belong until they are past their mid-twenties.

The person who has learned that he or she doesn't perform well in a big organization should have learned to say no to a position in one.

Succesful careers are not planned.

They develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strenghts, their method of work, and their values.