Years ago, I visited Claremont Graduate University for the Drucker School of Management's Centennial celebrating Peter F. Drucker's legacy. It was a cool autumn day and the deciduous trees lining the campus streets made me forget I was in Southern California. I went to check out the school and hear best-selling author and researcher Jim Collins give the following advice. I came across my notes late one night this last week.
For young people under 30...
1) Build a personal board of directors, not selected for accomplishments, but for character.
2) Please turn off your electronic gadgets. Effective people take time to think.
3) Study yourself like a bug to figure out what your strengths and weaknesses are.
4) Ask yourself: What's your question-to-statement ratio? And can you double it? Focus on how to be interested more than on how to be interesting.
5) Figure out what you would do if you discovered you have a terminal illness and then suddenly won 20 million dollars.
6) Figure out what you would STOP doing if you discovered you have a terminal illness and then suddenly won 20 million dollars.
7) Unplug opportunities that distract you from your Hedgehog Concept. You don't have to take every once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
8) Find something for which you have so much passion that it is enough to endure the pain.
9) Take time to articulate the uncompromising values.
10) Plan to be productive and purposeful in your later years. Prepare to live a life where at age 65 you have done only 1/3 of your work. Two-thirds of Peter Drucker's work (writing, philanthropy, teaching) came after he turned 65-years-old.
2 comments:
these are good thoughts! now i will need to think them through for myself.
This is good! I may print these out and put them some place where I see them often :)
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