I am extremely interested in Drucker talking about humanities both in the first and the second section. I read carefully in the last 4 chapters of the ‘Management’section and the first 5 chapters of ‘the individual’ section; whose content mainly focus on how to manage your business and yourself. Drucker considers management is a social function and liberal art, as he says” Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strength effective and thir weaknesses irrelevant.’ Individual creative ability and special business vision is a natural gift which can not be learned, only a small amount people own those specific talent and personality. A successful inventor or entrepreneur like Steve Jobs or Bill Gates can not be duplicated. However, the art of management and how to deal with people, are usually considered can be learned and practiced. If you own the ability to discover those genius, if you know how to work with your parterres, how to manage your subordinates, how to know more about your competitors, you can maximum your own effectiveness and achieve your own success. But before that, you should first learn how to understand persons, which include yourself, your partners and your competitors.
Understand yourself your own positions
If you want to manage yourself, you should know yourself first, In Druck’s word, “Some people work best as team members. Some people work exceedingly well as coaches and mentors, and some people are simply incompetent to be mentors’ Most of us even didnt know what their
In “ Individual’ section, the first 5 chapters perfectly help you examine yourself, and teach you how to know your own strength and weakness, how to catch the sense of overall condition and your specific position. how to learn and develope yourself then make a contribution. In the” New venture” chapter, he also exemplified Henry Ford and Honda, for the founder clear knew their