In 1994, Jim Collins asked Drucker about the idea of starting a consulting company.
Drucker's first question was, "What drives you to do this?" He said curiosity and being influenced by others. So Drucker said, "Oh, it seems that you have fallen into empiricism. You must be full of vulgar business atmosphere."
Look, this is a Drucker-style question, simple, straightforward, torture yourself, and hit the target with one hit.
Today’s article is also a few of Drucker’s questions about how to become an outstanding self. Like Collins's story, they all get right to the point: the future depends on knowing yourself deeply.
We live in an era full of unprecedented opportunities: if you are ambitious and smart, no matter where you start, you can reach the top of your career along the path of your choice.
But the prerequisite is that you must be your own CEO, know when to change paths, and continue to work hard and deliver results over a career that may last 50 years.
To do these things well, you must first have a deep understanding of yourself, know your strengths and weaknesses, know how you learn new knowledge and work with others, and also understand what your values are and where you can make the greatest contribution.
Because only when everything you do is based on your strengths, can you truly stand out.
01 What are my strengths?
Rather than knowing what they are not good at, most people don’t know what they are good at.
People in the past did not have any need to understand their own strengths, because a person's origin determines his status and career in life. But now people have a choice. We need to know our strengths before we can know where we belong.
The only way to discover your strengths is through feedback analysis.
Whenever you make an important decision or take an important action, you can record your expectations for the outcome in advance.
htmlAfter 19 to 12 months, compare the actual results with your expectations.If you consistently use this simple method, you can discover your strengths in a short period of time (perhaps two or three years).
At the same time, you can also discover which things prevent you from bringing out your strengths, and which areas you are not good at at all.
Based on the insights from the feedback analysis, you need to take action in the following areas:
First, focus on your strengths and put yourself in places where your strengths can be used.
Secondly, strengthen your strengths, improve your skills or learn new skills.
Third, discover any prejudice and ignorance caused by arrogance and arrogance, and overcome it.
Fourth, correct your bad habits.
02 How do I work?
It’s surprising how few people know how they get things done. Two people have the same strengths, but each has a unique way of working.
The first thing to figure out is whether you are a reader type (used to reading information) or a listener type (used to listening to information). Most people are not aware of this difference, which has caused great harm to their lives.
Dwight Eisenhower was a darling of the news media when he served as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe. No matter what questions the reporter asked, he could answer them fluently.
Ten years later, he was president, but the same reporters who had admired him openly looked down on him. They complained that he never answered questions directly and instead talked endlessly about other things.
Eisenhower obviously did not know that he was a reader rather than a listener. When he served as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, his aides would ensure that every question from the media was submitted in writing half an hour before a press conference.
In this way, he fully grasped the questions asked by reporters.And when he became president, he didn't even hear what reporters were asking.
A few years later, Lyndon Johnson also screwed up his own presidency, in large part because he didn't know he was a listener.
His predecessor John F. Kennedy was a reader-oriented person and collected some outstanding pen writers as his assistants. Johnson left these people behind after taking office, but he couldn't understand what was written on these pens.
Few listener-type people can become qualified readers through hard work-whether through active or passive efforts, and vice versa.
Thus, someone who tries to move from a listener to a reader suffers the fate of Lyndon Johnson, and a person who tries to move from a reader to a listener suffers the fate of Dwight Eisenhower. None of them can develop their talents or achieve anything.
03 How do I learn?
All schools follow this idea: there is only one correct way of learning, and everyone must follow it.
However, for students whose learning styles are different from others, being forced to learn the way they are taught in school is hell. Actually, there are about six or seven different ways to learn.
Some people learn by writing, some learn by doing, and some people learn by taking detailed notes. For example, Beethoven left many essay notes, but he never read them when composing.
When asked why he kept writing them down, he replied: "If I don't write them down right away, I will forget them all soon. If I write them down in a little notebook, I will never forget them and never have to look at them again."
Of all the most important self-knowledges, the easiest to do is to know how you learn. When asked, "How do you study?" most people know the answer.
But when asked: "Do you adjust your behavior based on this understanding?" Not many people answered "yes".
We must clarify our understanding of ourselves: Do I perform well under pressure, or do I adapt to a routine and predictable work environment? Am I better suited as a decision-maker or as a consultant?
Some people work best as team members. Others work best alone. Some people are exceptionally gifted as coaches and mentors, while others are incapable of being mentors. Only by clarifying yourself can you better cooperate with others and at the same time clarify your direction in learning.
No matter what, don't try to change yourself, because it is unlikely to succeed. However, you should work hard to improve your learning and working methods.
04 What are my values?
To manage yourself, the final question you have to ask is: What are my values?
If an organization's value system is not accepted by them or is incompatible with their own values, people will feel frustrated and work inefficiently.
A person's way of working and his or her strengths rarely conflict. However, a person's values sometimes conflict with his strengths. What a person does well and can even be said to be quite good and quite successful may not be consistent with his or her value system.
In this case, the work done by this person does not seem to be worth dedicating his life's energy, or even there is no need to devote too much energy.
05 Where do I belong?
A few people learn early on where they belong. But for most people, they don’t know this until at least their mid-twenties.
Only by knowing what your strengths, working methods, and values are, can you decide where to invest your energy, or where you don't belong.
People who already know that they will not do well in a large company should learn to refuse to work in a large company. People who already know that they are not suitable to be decision-makers should learn to refuse to do decision-making work.
knows the answers to the above questions and enables a person to accept an opportunity, an invitation or a task calmly.
A successful career is not planned in advance, but comes naturally after people understand their strengths, working methods and values and seize opportunities. Knowing where you belong can turn a diligent, capable but mediocre person into an outstanding worker.
06 Taking responsibility for relationships
Except for a few great artists, scientists, and athletes, few people achieve results on their own.
Whether they are members of organizations or individual professionals, most people have to cooperate with others, and they cooperate effectively.
The first thing is to accept the fact that others are individuals like you. They will insist on showing their individuality as human beings.
Therefore, to be effective, you must know the characteristics of the people you work with. The principle of sounds easy to understand, but few people really pay attention to it.
A person who is used to writing reports is a typical example, because his boss is a reader type. Even if the next boss is a listener type, he will continue to write those reports. The boss therefore considered the employee stupid, incompetent, and lazy.
But this situation could have been avoided if the employee had studied the new boss's situation in advance and analyzed the boss's working style.
This is the secret to "managing" your boss. Everyone has the right to work their own way. The first tip to improve efficiency in is to understand the people you work with to capitalize on their strengths, work styles, and values.
The second part of interpersonal responsibility is communication responsibility. Most conflicts arise because we don’t know what others are doing, how they work, what contributions they are focused on, and what results they expect. The reason we don’t understand is: we didn’t ask. The challenges faced by
in self-management seem obvious, and the answers are self-evident. However, self-management requires individuals to do things they have never done before.
Every society in history, even the most individualistic ones, has taken two things for granted: First, organizations outlive their employees; second, most people never move.
Today, the opposite is true. Workers outlive the organization and they come and go as they please. The need for self-management thus created a revolution in human affairs.
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