This is a condensed slide deck from my Fall 2019 section of The Art of Self-Coaching at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Course materials are archived at https://www.edbatista.com/the-art-of-self-coaching-course.html
4. Strengths
It takes far more energy and work to improve
from incompetence to mediocrity than it
takes to improve from first-rate performance
to excellence.
~Peter Drucker
21. Goal pursuit
The critical factor in whether goal pursuit
makes us happy lies in enjoying the journey &
not in realizing the end-goal.
~Sonja Lyubomirsky
27. A value system
If you worship money & things, you will never
have enough. Worship your own body &
beauty, you will always feel ugly. Worship
power, you will end up feeling weak & afraid.
~David Foster Wallace
28. A value system
The really important kind of freedom involves
attention & awareness & discipline & effort &
being able truly to care about other people &
to sacrifice for them, over & over.
~David Foster Wallace
29. A discussion
What am I learning about my values?
How are they influencing my aspirations?
30. Conditions
For knowledge workers, How do I perform?
may be an even more important question than
What are my strengths?
~Peter Drucker
40. More feedback
Course evaluations in Axess
Link at bottom left in Canvas
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41. Other items…
Slides posted on my site
One last assignment due Tuesday 9pm
Today’s 1:1s in B206 (the usual location)