Managing oneself and others

In 2005 the Harvard Business Review published Peter Drucker's seminal article Managing Oneself, where the father of management outlined a reflective model for human performance.

Managing oneself, members of one's team and the team itself has been the pursuit of management for almost a century.

Synthesising the more effective of these theories into a working framework based on real-life practice has been our focus for almost two decades.

The result - a five-step process that teams of all kinds can work through to calibrate and optimise their purpose, people and performance.

In our work, we have found significant ambiguity and dissonance with even the basics, such as one's role, responsibilities, results and remuneration.

The starting point of this process is to clarify these fundamentals.

We have created a one-page worksheet to be completed independently by both the individual and his/her manager.

Sitting down together and 'comparing notes', so to speak, is a powerful way for both to unders…