Harvard Business Review on Managing Yourself (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series)

To be an efficient manager, one requires an understanding of his own passions and motivations, strengths and weaknesses. This guide offers advice from business greats, including Peter F Drucker and John P Kotter, on how managers can improve personal performance and productivity and become better managers of those they lead.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159139970X
• ISBN13: 9781591399704
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Harvard Business Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.5" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

Approachable and readable

It's surprising how practical these small books are. I love the Harvard Business Reviews Paperback Series. HBR's, Managing Yourself is no exception. It points the subtle difference between great leadership and elite leadership. It helps guide you to discovering your story; thus, peeling back the layers of your leadership style. I refer to the small book often to make sure I'm staying on track, with personal goals and if you buy it you will too.

I wish sombody had given me this book when just starting out

I thought this was an excellent book, and I love this format of short articles you can read and think about at lunch (you don't feel guilty not finishing it at once.) I completely disagree with the other reviews, I thought that this book provide 5 or 6 different tools for looking at your relationship with your boss and peers that would have been helpful when I was just starting out. Usually if you buy one of these books, about 60-70% of the articles in any one are good, with the rest as throwaways. Still, I am very glad I bought this because it solved a problem I had with one of my subordinates (I am a Reader and she is a Listener - the Drucker article). No matter where you are on the corporate ladder, this is a useful book.