Before they can effectively manage others，managers have to be adept at managing themselves．That requires truly understanding thei r own passions，motivations，strengths，and weaknesses．This guide offers sage advice from businessg reats，including Peter E Drucker and John R Kotter,on how managers can improve personal performance and productivity and，in the process，become better managers ofthose they lead．

In Alice in Wonderland．Lewis Carroll provides no endof wisdom to business leaders．Consider the famouswords of the Red Queen：“Here，you see，it takes allthe running you can do，to keep in the same place．Ifyou want to get somewhere else，you must run at leasttwice as fast as that!”(That sad fact of competitionwas the basis of a Harvard Business Review articlecalled“The Red queen Effect，”by Stuart Kauffman．)Carroll’S Duchess seems to have something of the executive coach in her—or at least the organizational psychologist’S penchant for making the commonplace abstruse：“Be what you would seem to be，’’she states asher moral．“Or if you’d like it put more simply‘Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than whatit might appear to others that what you were or mighthave been was not otherwise than what you had beenwould have appeared to them to be otherwise．’”

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How Leaders Move Up 

DAN CIAMpA

Overloaded Circuits

Why Smart People Underperform 

EDWARD M．HALLOWELL

What's Your Story?

HERMINIA IBARRA AND KENT LINEBACK

How to Play to Your Strengths 

LAURA MORGAN ROBERTS，GRETCHEN SPREITZER， JANE DUTTON，ROBERT QUINN，EMILY HEAPHY，  AND BRIANNA BARKER

Do Your Commitments Match Your Convictions?

DONALD N．SULL AND DOMINIC HOULDER

The Best Advice I Ever Got 

DAISY WADEMAN

Managing Your Boss 

JOHN J.GABARRO AND JOHN P．KOTTER

Managing Oneself 

PETER F．DRUCKER

About the Contributors 

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