I just came across a brilliant article that I think you’ll find
SO helpful, especially if you’re looking for new input
on how to develop your career and your life.
It’s written by Peter Drucker, a great Strategic Interventionist
working in the area of management and organizational
psychology – but it’s not just about management.
It’s about how to manage and guide yourself in anything
that’s meaningful to you – how to understand yourself,
strengthen yourself, energize yourself, create more meaning
and guide yourself to your greater success and fulfillment.
It’s really a wonderful piece! You can get it HERE
as a free download (it should download directly)
A key part of any success is self-understanding: you need
to know how you’re ALREADY wired in order to capitalize on
the innate strengths, talents, and convictions you already have.
Drucker guides you to ask yourself five questions:
1. What are my strengths?
Our culture teaches us to be well-rounded. Our schools force us
to work on our weaknesses by taking classes on topics we will
always find difficult. But the truth is that all of us have vast areas
in which we are NOT strong and never will be excellent.
But it often takes less effort to become outstanding in an area of strength
than it takes to become mediocre in an area we have no strength.
In work, you need to understand and focus on your strengths.
2. How do I work?
What’s your learning style? How do you best take in information
and turn it into results? If you know how you learn best, you’ll
be able to understand more quickly and retain new knowledge
much longer, and you’ll be much more skillful in your communication.
3. What are my values?
What do you see as your most important responsibilities for living
a worthy, ethical life? These are your emotional drivers that will
either bring out your greatest strengths – or will leave you conflicted.
4. Where do I belong?
For thousands of years of human history, people did not have a choice
of where they should go and what they should do. If you were born
a peasant, you did what others did and died a peasant. Today we not only
have a choice – sometimes the choice is overwhelming. Here are the
key questions to ask yourself about where you should be that will
bring out the best in you and most benefit the people around you.
5. What can I contribute?
In earlier eras, companies told business people what their contribution
should be. Work was based on force. Today, work is based on choice.
You must be intelligent and decide yourself. Based on
your strengths, work style, and values, understand you how might
make the greatest contribution to your workplace and the world.
Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves.
I hope you’ll take advantage of this excellent article!
You can download it for free right HERE
Warmly,
Mark Peysha
CEO
Robbins-Madanes Training
P.S. Did you enjoy this? Let us know about it!
Here’s the link to the article again: http://budurl.com/usk8
Amazing material as usual! When I saw your email I was half hoping for another brilliant intervention clip : (. But still I am pleased as usual. Although another Tony clip would be great too!
I really enjoyed this and look forward to receiving more. I do have a serious question though, Is there a questionaire or type test one can take to see based on the answers could give an analyzation of what your strengths and weaknesses are?
Thank you for alerting me to this article. I have an interview next week with a presentation and this article was so inspirational and apt. Synchronicity – great, isn’t it?
I fully agree and love this article from the bottom of my heart! It shows just exactly the way I work with my clients in management and career development. I see them relax during our sessions because they ‘only’ have to work on strengthening of what IS! Love, Nicolette
A most valuable article for anyone who wishes to make an analysis of where they fit into the greater scheme of things. Thank you.
Thanks Mark.
I hear you but still it would be nice to have program in place that works to empower students and not fight against them.
I love it ! It summarizes all the essentials to achieve clarity in one’s carreer decisions.
I missed the opportunity to take the class in Strategic Intervention. Is there anything else you intend to release: program, class or anything???
Thank you for answering.
We love you tony and we appreciate you.You are a legend….keep it up….:)
tony you are incredible!!! god bless you.
Fantastic, I’ll use this information to help the youths in my environment. Thanks Toney and Cloe and God bless.
Thank you for sharing this, it was excellent!
OMG! I had a major epiphany — in fact several of them. Thank you
I found the article indeed very useful
Intuitively we know many of these arguments, but we do not rationalize them on a daily basis
Reading this article and related subjects made me aware of some tools that I can use to improve my performance
Great Article…!
I really appreciate how your guys are so willing to give
back to the community by offering free advice and coaching.
We all wish we were in a Tony Robbins seminar but we just
can’t get there this year….
Never thought I’d have to live through something like this… Thanks for the coaching…We’re all big fans.
Keep up the good work.
Thank you so much for sharing this Peter Drucker article with everyone! Even IF we our culture and schools are not currently in line with our personal values, the important thing this article addresses is how to understand and work with our strengths TODAY (regardless of whether or not we agree with everything happening in the world around us). This article is super practical by providing real TOOLS for making real progress toward one’s dreams! Thanks again.
Great Job Guys!!! Keep up the Good Work!!!
Great article. Only for those of us who are slow readers, a reduced version would be wonderful
Thanks a lot for these information,, really this site helps me to understand myself more and more. I appreciate what you present to us.
Thanks again
Thank you for sharing this article.
Real good questions to ask yourself.
Best regards
Christina Roelshøj
Thank you for wonderful article
How can I determine what my strengths are? How can I determine what my learning style/styles is/are? (I get the values, etc parts)
Thank you Tony, I have purchase your products in 1998
Life Management System, and today has changed my life forever. I’m very successful moving to vanuatu in 2008
and built my investment in 6 months value at 2 million Aust dollars.
Thank again, I wish someday I will meet you face to face just to say thank you.
Marie Dolores Kavirere
Economy comes to those who know themselves. Year ago work was based on force and now our work is based on choice.
This is a awha moment. It all comes down to MY personal power. Love it! Thanks for the challege!
The “Where,How,and What(s)” are a Great Foundation!! The “When” is NOW!! The “Why” is the Strength (and Reason) to DO IT! Thanks for reminding me!!
Thank for the article. I found it too complicated to understand.
Isnt it simple enough to follow our intuition and heart?
I have a concern, and maybe someone can clear this for me.
A sidebar pullout in the article stated, “Do not try to change yourself—you are not likely to succeed. Work to improve the way you perform.”
As I see it, we all and always change. The problem is that we often do so ad hoc, or at effect under the influence of outside sources. The trick is to do so under conscious control and through self-direction, or at least under the chosen direction or guidance of a mentor or interventionist, thereby to be at cause.
And still, working to improve how you perform is to change oneself, in that, performance is the outward outcome of who we are at that moment. The performance of now is our self-definition in this moment and it may either embed or change that aspect of our future self and future performance.
So, I disagree with this side bar, and a side bar is meant to succinctly emphasize an important point, yet I find it’s a weak assertion.
Change is the currency of the universe. We purchase our futures for good or bad with change.
You must change yourself. You must always grow. When a tree ceases to grow it is no longer alive.
The quality of our outcomes, or performance, to grow better or to grow worse, may, or might, be observed through feedback analysis over the long term, but that is to ignore all the other influences, both self and external, that have occurred in the interim.
Is it then more important to learn to manage your state of change at any given moment and use that to improve your moment to moment outcomes?
Great Clarity Finder there!
Thanks a bunch
Greg De Tisi
Great aticle, thank you for forwarding the link, much appreciated
Hi Tony, I have always had in the back of my mind to coach in the US, have had some contact with Youth At Risk NY, Phoenix, Denver which was an off shoot in the 80′s from The Forum. that was my first door, since then I have studied Grad Dip Training & Development, HR, Ba Social Science, Grief and Trauma, and currently coach long term unemployed with my own business, love to come to you and learn more, Andy
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Sound advice as always from one of life’s most trusted mentors.
Thanks Tony ,Your reccemendations are always appreciated .
Yes! Of course Peter Drucker’s questions go to the core.
I do see what I can do with my strengths which adds to
relationships and therefore contribution to the world!
Acting on this is the stumbler! This is the place where I
carry my Linus blanket around and would like to lie down
in it! :>)
Wonderful content. I would have loved another Tony video on this topic. Now that I’ve read the article: I would really love to have a Robins – Drucker interview, fight or discussion of the material. In the absence of such an inspirational video: I will take the material to heart and grow from it. Thanks.
What an awesome article. It helped articulate somethings I knew into words and brought out new information on how to use the learning styles in an adult/lifestyle setting. I am working on helping children, teenagers, young adults and parents to understand the importance of self knowledge. It can put them on the right path for life. It has been an uphill battle because I was working in public schools that have resisted embracing these truths for the long term growth of students. They have given in to the short term growth of teaching students to cram for state tests for a high score. I needed this article, I am out of work because my values are not those of the educational system. I am re-evaluating how I can contribute to those around me. This article was awesome!!! Thanks for posting it.
This came at exactly the right time! I am just going through the process of updating my profile and website in order to better reflect my strenghs and areas of expertise so this was brilliantly useful, many thanks!
Very pertinent… we live in a changing world and values change. Feeling on the shelf at 58years is NOT the truth. I would be lying to myself, because I would be agreeing with other peoples judgements and those, in truth, have nothing to do with me. I have contributed, made a difference, and I will continue to do so and support all those who do the same.
A very interesting article! I especially liked your summary, Mark. I feel like those 5 questions should form the foundation of our approach to education too. Imagine an education system that focuses on “how to understand yourself,strengthen yourself, energize yourself, create more meaning and guide yourself to your greater success and fulfillment.”
A poem by Semonides of Amorgos
The man from Chios called Homer said a beautiful thing:
“The generations of men are like the leaves of a tree.”
Few mortals who’ve heard this take it to heart:
all men carry the hope rooted in their youth.
While mortals are still living in youth’s lovely flowering,
light-headed, their hearts cling to many vain things:
they won’t grow old, they’ll never die,
and being healthy, why give sickness a moment’s thought?
Fools to think that way, they don’t yet know
how quickly time moves for mortals, how short the young days.
But since you know this now that your end is near,
treat yourself entirely to what good things
Hello Mark,
I truly enjoyed the article! Being a care giver at present and perhaps looking how to be the Breadwinner in a too near future is of great concern. A common thought is
A poem by Semonides of Amorgos
The man from Chios called Homer said a beautiful thing:
“The generations of men are like the leaves of a tree.”
Few mortals who’ve heard this take it to heart:
all men carry the hope rooted in their youth.
While mortals are still living in youth’s lovely flowering,
light-headed, their hearts cling to many vain things:
they won’t grow old, they’ll never die,
and being healthy, why give sickness a moment’s thought?
Fools to think that way, they don’t yet know
how quickly time moves for mortals, how short the young days.
But since you know this now that your end is near,
treat yourself entirely to what good things
Hello Mark,
I truly enjoyed the article! Being a care giver at present and perhaps looking how to be the Breadwinner in a too near future is of great concern. A common thought is: How does an individual make not only A decision, but the riight decision? How is that information uncoved?
Pat
Uncovered
Can’t seem to get any PDF file links to download successfully.. not this article nor any of the course syllabus (or other documents that are on the RMT website as PDF files). And yes, my Adobe Reader is just fine. Help!
Thank you so much for Drucker’s article ,it is really awesome and hit it right home for me. I am at a cross road in my career as a chef and newly graduated Dietitian. I did not manage well my professional portfolio for work recognition and personal reward and I am having hard time securing work in my field of interest. I have learn tremendously from this article I wish there was a tape from Robbins-Manales Drucker on the subject I found her explanation enlightening of the interventions process. I would like to take the opportunity to express deepest gratitude to them for their incredible generosity and contribution specially in this difficult moment in my life.
Jocelyne
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Hi Mark – Thanks for the article – I got so much out of it as usual!
I found a typo (used to be an editor and can’t help myself!): understand YOU HOW might
Thanks again!
Liz
Hi
Your trainings have come at a time in my life that I really needed them. I had lost all hope. I was giving up which is not me I’m a fighter…I never give up and I can’t give up. It’s my childrens future at stake if I do. I can`t let my adoptive Mom get the best of me she already has with my Dad and brother who are both deceased. I have to out live her, she can`t get me too.
I have to fight but she has made and given me such a mess and debt. I am disabled and at home with her she is 88 and very manipulative to get what she wants NO MATTER WHAT IT DAMAGES OR COSTS!!!
Thank you I will fight her and I will make it out of this mess and debt so my children will not have to deal with it.
Janice
Strengths Finder 2.0, by Tom Rath is the most amazing resource to pinpoint your strengths. Finding this book is what propelled me to finally acknowledge and accept my gifts as a coach. What I really love about this book is that after answering questions, they give you your top five strengths with explanations, and then they offer several options of careers which would match those strengths. Having been given this information, my life is back on course with purpose and direction. I believe this information is so accurate and so specific, I intend to incorporate the ‘test’ into my practice when working with someone who is looking for their direction in life.
Thank you Tony for all the good advise, since today I’m still listen to your tape,
As you said, you can change your plan at any time if it doesn’t worked out the way you want.
Never give up, because you have fail, failure is your power. My whole life has change dramatically, every thing I do is success. Once again thank you Tony
Marie Dolores Kavirere