
How do I learn best? (read, write, listen, talk, do).What are my strengths? (using feedback analysis).Later I’ll go into a little more detail on some of them. As a summary, here are all the guidelines I found in the article as a nested list. In essence they provide a good practice: what to do, how, when and why. Each guideline is a solution to a problem.

In this post, I’m trying to extract the “guidelines” from Drucker’s article. Later he explained he had been shaving and looked in the mirror and said to himself “I refuse to see a pimp in the mirror in the morning when I shave.” Rather than organize the dinner, the ambassador resigned.

The king was a known philanderer and it had been made clear to the ambassador that the king expected extra guests. He had been asked to host a dinner for the King of England at the time, Edward VII. In 1906, the German Ambassador to Britain resigned unexpectedly.

In this blog post, I’ll summarise the key guidelines from the article including a brief story about the ambassador who refused to be a pimp. In his classic 1999 HBR article Managing Oneself, Peter Drucker explains how knowledge workers (and indeed all humans) can understand themselves and navigate their careers.
