The path to your professional success starts with a critical look in the
mirror.
If you read nothing else on managing yourself, read these 10 articles. We've combed
through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles to select the most important ones to
help you maximize yourself.
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself will inspire you to:
- Stay engaged throughout your 50+-year work life
- Tap into your deepest values
- Solicit candid feedback
- Replenish physical and mental energy
- Balance work, home, community, and self
- Spread positive energy throughout your organization
- Rebound from tough times
- Decrease distractibility and frenzy
- Delegate and develop employees' initiative
Table of Contents
1. Managing Oneself Peter F. Drucker
2. Management Time: Who's Got the Monkey? William Oncken, Jr., and Donald L. Wass
(Commentary by Stephen R. Covey)
3. How Resilience Works Coutu, Diane L.
4. Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time Tony Schwartz and Catherine McCarthy
5. Overloaded Circuits: Why Smart People Underperform Edward M. Hallowell
6. Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life Stewart D. Friedman
7. Reclaim Your Job Ghoshal, Sumantra and Bruch, Heike
8. Moments of Greatness: Entering the Fundamental State of Leadership Quinn,
Robert E.
9. What to Ask the Person in the Mirror Robert S. Kaplan
10. Primal Leadership: The Hidden Driver of Great Performance Goleman, Daniel;
Boyatzis, Richard; and McKee, Annie
288 pages, Paperback