Drucker Argument

Drucker Argument Analysis In Drucker’s exposition Managing Oneself, he appears to be looking into how to be successful as a knowledge worker. Drucker starts his argument by talking about some individual traits that need to be known in order to truly know how to manage oneself. Then he goes into his main claim which is in order to managing oneself, the biggest part of that is being able to manage your surroundings in order to put yourself in the best situation. He supports this claim by talking about how you learn, what your values are, and knowing how your coworkers work best. This is main point brought up in the first couple pages and is where Drucker starts to make the point that knowing how you function is the best way to put yourself into a good situation. “Put yourself where your strengths can produce results” (Drucker 3). This can take a while to learn exactly what works best for someone. An individual has to determine their strengths as well as the best way to communicate with others. Once a person finds their pros and cons they can find a work place where they can thrive and make the best results. Druckers strengthens this point by sayings that in the area’s that an individual has no talent “a person and especially a knowledge worker-should not take on work, jobs, and assignments” (Drucker 4). Again he is …show more content…
“To work in an organization whose value system is unacceptable or incompatible with one’s own condemns a person both to frustration and to nonperformance” (Drucker 6). Anyone who joins a job does not want to figure out that after working for them for a year that they completely disagree with what the company stands for. Either the individual’s quality of work would suffer or the worker would be very displeased with what he or she was doing. To prevent this, an individual can figure out what they want out of a job and look into a company before they