I received a copy of the Harvard Business Review on Managing Yourself for Christmas and have to say it was one of the best books I have read in awhile. The “Harvard Business Review” is a series of books covering topics for entrepreneurs and business managers via a series of short, useful, and informative essays. Written mostly by academics and people “in the field” I always get great ideas from them.

The essay about burnout ( cleverly called Attention Deficit Trait in the book ) and how to prevent it really hit home for me in this series. Burnout is a problem that really screwed me up in 2006 and caused me to burn some bridges with some great people. Having a way to help prevent recognize and prevent that from happening again will likely save me lots of heartache and money.

Also in the book.. an essay by Peter Drucker about life management, an overview of how to make sure your work goals match your personal goals, how to identify your strengths to be more efficient. All and all pretty useful and authoritative. I recommend it .

PS. Thanks to Karen for the book and to Amazon for the wish list feature.

Filed under: Business — Scott @ January 4, 2007 6:24 pm

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