HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself (with bonus article "How Will You Measure Your Life?" by Clayton M. Christensen) Kindle Edition

Ten articles relate to managing yourself to be happy in your career and personal life. Learn, grow into responsibilities, be recognized, and create a culture on agreeing on what they want from participation and on agreeing to what actions, to develop culture into embracing priorities and following procedures.Manage yourself by asking yourself these questions; what are my strengths, how do I work, what are my values, where do I belong, and what should I contribute.The best ways for a manager to be in control regarding his boss are; recommend and take resulting action, act, but advice at once, or act on your own and then routinely report.Resilient people accept reality, belief deeply that life is meaningful, and have an uncanny ability to improvise.Putting in longer hours to respond to the rising demands will inevitably take its toll, physically, emotionally, and mentally. Individuals need to recognize the cost of energy-depleting behaviors and then take responsibility to change them by going to bed early, exercising, loose weight, or have breakfast or dinner with your family.Attention Deficit Trait (ADT), caused by brain overload, is an epidemic in organizations nowadays. To combat ADT promote positive emotions, take control of your brain and organize yourself by handling things once only.Total leadership helps you mitigate a range of problems from making trade-offs. It starts with reflecting, then brainstorm possibilities, choose three most promising experiments, and measure progress.Everyone complains about not having enough time to deal with all the demands on them mostly coming from a most fragmented day. Carefully set boundaries and priorities to achieve far more than busy managers do.To elevate the performance of others, we have to elevate ourselves in the fundamental state of leadership. Ask yourself the question: "What result do I want to create"? It leads us from problem solving to purpose finding.Leaders should ask themselves seven types of questions on some periodic basis, to improve performance and preempt serious business problems about; vision and priorities, managing time, feedback, succession, evaluation and alignment, leading under pressure, an staying true to yourself.A leader's mood has the greatest impact on performance when it is upbeat, but it must also be in tune with those that surround him. A leaders uses four components of emotional intelligence; self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management, to have resonance with their organization. To rewire the brain toward more emotional intelligence there is a five parts process; imagining your ideal self, come to terms with them, plan to bridge the gap, practice, and create a community of colleagues and family.

This book is so awesome. It helped me reset when I was approaching burnout. You may have encountered pieces of this information at some point in your career, but it is nice to have it compiled. This books also demands a certain level of introspection. It can potentially be a quick read, but I enjoyed reading a chapter or two and subsequently reflecting on the practical application to my life.

This book is a mix of interesting reads and silly business school dogma. Surely HBS should be able to find more new and interesting ideas. Perhaps it is merely edited poorly. In any case, it is a short read and the good articles make it worth it.

This was the first book I picked up on my kindle paperwhite and it got me hooked so much that I couldn't wait to go at it whenever I had the time. This book makes you realize things about yourself that you didn't even know was true. It gives you so much wisdom that would usually take one years to gather if he's lucky enough to be surrounded by remarkable people during that time. More than any of that it will shock you by questioning facts of management that you would have followed blindly through the years. To sum it up- Great book. Don't think, go for it!

Love this book. Picked up in the airport. The concept of “how to find a career that you enjoy, with a good family life and STAY OUT OF JAIL” caught my attention. I’ve had my roofing business for 31 years and this book has simple and useable advice in each chapter. Managing roofers is easy for me, managing managers has been a challenge. This book has helped.

This book has some wonderful articles that anyone can learn from. Personally I have taken to reading a few articles more than once e.g. "How will you measure your life by Clayton M. Christensen" and have gained some key insights I think I want to apply to my own life. On the other hand, some other articles talk more about the role of leadership which I do not think necessary or they use examples which aren't relevant to the central topic of self-management but rather people-management. These articles are oft cliche and may fail to appeal to a wide range of people who I think may be reading this book e.g. non-CEO's et cetera.

This book my first series of Harvard Business Review. I truly enjoyed reading through the book. Few chapters are not that much interesting compared to rest of book as it goes too much into examples. In Overall, it's a must reading book and I absolutely loved it.There are certain stuff that I enjoyed the most as: Mood Contagion, Emotional Intelligent at work or even to Value Your Instincts when you are in Fundamental State of Leadership.

It’s a collection of 10 stories ranging from solid to great. My primary takeaway is that the keys to success as a leader are not locked in some treasure chest on a remote island — they are what everyone thinks they are. The hard part is executing day to day: being fair rather than nice, sticking to the priorities that matter in the face of conflict, communicating more often and in more detail than your gut tells you to, managing your time, and so on. I now have two pages of practical tips I’ll implement.