Druckers Article

After reading Drucker's article, reflecting on the ideas shared in this course thus far, and thinking about our group project I have identified an area we have revisted on several occasions. The performance of an individual, whether it be in a team or not, is an important issue to understand and more importantly, identify how someone performs. As Drucker points out, Like one's strengths, how one performs is unique. It is a matter of personality. Whether personality be a matter of nature or nurture, it surely is formed long before a person goes to work ... A person's way of performing can be modified, but it is unlikely to be completely changed -- and certainly not easily. Just as people achieve results by doing what they are good at, they also achieve results by working in ways that they best perform. A few common personality traits usually determine how a person performs (Drucker, 5). I know we have discussed this many times in class discussions about how individuals performance can have a major impact on a group's performance and that is something students and faculty alike at Quinnipiac have tried to aid over the years of group projects we have been a part of. However, just as we are narrowing in on in our group project, we think knowing how you perform as an individual should be a focus here at QU. Drucker points out that identifying strengths and weaknesses is a very different topic, but that performance is a measure of your personality and it entitles some "feedback analysis". I think the courses here at QU utilize feedback analysis a little bit, but it could be blown out a lot more and would have our graduating students more equipped for their first real world job. Overall this was a very interesting article and I think Drucker raises several important and relevant points that are easy for us to relate to and apply in our lives as seniors today.