On Managing Yourself

Managing a career is a job nobody assigns, and this collection treats it as work deserving the same attention a manager gives to a department. The articles cover knowing where one's strengths actually lie, deciding how to spend a finite supply of time and energy, sustaining attention across a long working life, and the question of how that life will be judged at the end, a theme closely associated with Clayton M. Christensen. The pieces come from Harvard Business Review and are short enough to read singly, which makes the book usable during a busy period rather than only on a break. Areas it addresses: • Identifying personal strengths and the conditions in which they show • Time, energy and attention treated as resources to be allocated • Long-range thinking about the shape of a career and its priorities • Short articles that work as a reference to return to over the years Useful for professionals, managers and graduates planning their next decade, available at Boipoka.