Temperment
BUS626 – ASSIGNMENT ONE
PERSONAL INVENTORY AND SELF ASSESSMENT REPORT Due 4/8/13 - 100 points
Self-Knowledge: The First Step in Managing Human Capital
• He that will not reflect is a ruined man. (Asian Proverb)
• Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. (Aristotle)
• To conquer one’s self is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat. (Plato)
• Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life. (Herbert Otto)
• Make it the business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. (Miguel de Cervantes)
• Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.” (Lao Tzu)
• The power of leadership rests in one's fluency in speaking the language of influence and motivation. Micro-messages are the heart and soul of leadership. (Stephen Young/ Micro Messaging)
• ...the book shows that success in management is less the property of firms (systems of the business as a whole) but instead, is mostly about the personality of the individual manager within the operating unit. (David H. Maister/ Practice What You Preach)
• Knowledge is not impersonal./...does not reside in a book./...Knowledge is always embodied in a person. The shift to the knowledge society therefore puts the person in the center. (Peter Drucker/ Post Capitalist Society)
• The first principle is that you must not fool yourself...and you are the easiest person to fool. (Richard Feynman/ used by Phillip Clampitt in his Introduction/ Communicating for Managerial Success))
Introduction
Through years of managing, consulting, counseling and teaching, I have concluded that one cannot effectively work with others unless one is naturally gifted or has taken the time to learn about one's self. Quotations about self knowledge are nice, but until the twentieth
PERSONAL INVENTORY AND SELF ASSESSMENT REPORT Due 4/8/13 - 100 points
Self-Knowledge: The First Step in Managing Human Capital
• He that will not reflect is a ruined man. (Asian Proverb)
• Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. (Aristotle)
• To conquer one’s self is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat. (Plato)
• Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life. (Herbert Otto)
• Make it the business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. (Miguel de Cervantes)
• Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.” (Lao Tzu)
• The power of leadership rests in one's fluency in speaking the language of influence and motivation. Micro-messages are the heart and soul of leadership. (Stephen Young/ Micro Messaging)
• ...the book shows that success in management is less the property of firms (systems of the business as a whole) but instead, is mostly about the personality of the individual manager within the operating unit. (David H. Maister/ Practice What You Preach)
• Knowledge is not impersonal./...does not reside in a book./...Knowledge is always embodied in a person. The shift to the knowledge society therefore puts the person in the center. (Peter Drucker/ Post Capitalist Society)
• The first principle is that you must not fool yourself...and you are the easiest person to fool. (Richard Feynman/ used by Phillip Clampitt in his Introduction/ Communicating for Managerial Success))
Introduction
Through years of managing, consulting, counseling and teaching, I have concluded that one cannot effectively work with others unless one is naturally gifted or has taken the time to learn about one's self. Quotations about self knowledge are nice, but until the twentieth