Orignal Post

The first main idea that sticks out to me from Drucker’s article is the idea of self awareness. He says, “Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong. More often, people know what they are not good at – and even then more people are wrong than right” (Drucker 3). This was interesting to read because I think that it is almost human tendency to know what you are good at and know what you aren’t so good at. Drucker attempts to drive home this point by saying one has to really evaluate and know oneself before they can really perform up to their potential whether it be individually or within teams. He goes on to talk about how feedback and goal setting are essential tools for getting to know one-self. I particularly enjoyed how he talked about feedback analysis and even though this isn’t a new and novel idea it is still something that is concrete and still works. The one part of the whole process that I was surprised about was when he said, “Practiced consistently (feedback analysis), this simple method will show you within a fairly short period of time, maybe two or three years, where your strengths lie – and this is the most important thing to know. The method will show you what you are doing or failing to do what deprives you of the full benefits of your strengths” (Drucker 4). This was interesting to me because through my experiences feedback is usually only in the form of a superficial team member evaluation that we as students usually don’t even get to see. Besides that I can’t remember any other type of feedback except for feedback that one would have received from being in a class with a STC. I am a little biased here but I do believe that getting feedback from someone that doesn’t have any influence on your grade or any influence on the group’s overall performance is beneficial. It allows people to really get another view of how they work from a point of view other than their own and their teammates, which is usually a little biased to say the least. In the end, even though Drucker goes on to talk about many other factors that go into really honing in on one’s own talents, I believe his most important point is in becoming as self aware as you could be.