Why does anyone struggle with their career management? Reflecting on the cases
analyzed this week, one might say it could be partly due to personal reasons. In “Managing
Oneself” or “Reaching your potential,” Drucker and Kaplan heavily weighed one’s career
management on oneself. I would like to agree that 50% of your career development is dependent
on your own decisions, while 50% might depend on your work environment/management.
Drucker emphasizes that success comes to those that know themselves. Drucker
indicates that knowing your values, strengths, and how you best perform is imperative to being
successful – whatever that may be in. However, I believe Drucker’s input on success lacks a
component to the equation, because it’s obvious that knowing yourself isn’t always indicative of
success. We have scenarios like Joe the Sales executive, where he knows himself but lacks the
motivation to act on his own values, strengths, and performance; but does he truly believe
himself successful? Therefore, Drucker’s concept lacks the notion that one would need to live
