Managing Oneself

Two of the ideas you’ll keep

The Clif summary of Managing Oneself pulls out 9 insights. Here are the first two.

1. History's great achievers managed themselves, but they were rare exceptions; today, when knowledge workers outlive the organizations they work for, ordinary people must place themselves, and that requires knowing yourself with brutal specificity.
2. The only reliable way to discover your strengths is **feedback analysis**: whenever you make a key decision, write down what you expect to happen, then compare against actual results 9-12 months later. Practiced consistently, it reveals your real strengths within two to three years.

The other 7 — and the full 10-minute summary — are in the app.

What’s inside: 8 chapters

The whole summary runs about 10 minutes, read or listened to.

1. The New Demand: We Must Learn to Manage Ourselves
2. What Are My Strengths? The Discipline of Feedback Analysis
3. Acting on Your Strengths — and Fighting Intellectual Arrogance
4. How Do I Perform? Reader or Listener, and How You Learn
5. More Ways We Perform: Alone or With People, Stress and Size
6. What Are My Values? The Mirror Test
7. Where Do I Belong? Placing Yourself With Intent
8. What Should I Contribute? Managing Relationships and the Second Half