Know yourself. Especially how you handle stress, because fear is the basis of all mankind. That’s life. — Garnett Znidaric Acccording to management guru, Peter Drucker, to succeed in any venture you first have to know yourself — your strengths and weaknesses, how you perform and what your values are. "The only way to discover your strengths," he writes in the January 2005 issue of the Harvard Business Review, "is through feed-back analysis. Whenever you make a key decision or take a key action, write down what you expect will happen. Compare that with the actual results 12-18 months later. Practiced consistently this simple method will show you within a fairly short period of time where your strengths lie. It will also show you the gaps in your knowledge … it is essential to remedy bad habits." "Amazingly few people know how they get things done," says Drucker. "Indeed, most of us do not even know that different people work and perform differently. The first thing to know is whether...
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