The management book
Book - 2011
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- Published
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Harlow :
Financial Times Prentice Hall
2011.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Item Description
- Includes index.
- Physical Description
- xiii, 254 p. ; 20 cm
- ISBN
- 9780273750338
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part 1. You - a manager?
- The accidental manager
- The things managers do
- Success, happiness and the management career
- Picturing your role
- Part 2. The team
- The team starts with you
- Assembling the team
- What does your team want from you?
- The ever-changing shape of the team
- Part 3. Creating your role
- Deciphering your boss
- The imperfect boss
- Think networks, not hierarchies
- Creating your role
- Part 4. The working team
- Marching to the same tune
- Cutting up the cake
- Coach or controller?
- No team is an island
- Part 5. The productive team
- Engaging and motivating the team
- Keeping on track
- Entitlement and fairness: reasonableness and imbalances
- The curse and delight of meetings
- Part 6. The working manager
- The crunch: making decisions
- Are you really prioritising?
- Problems, barriers and conflicts
- Dealing with change
- Part 7. The sophisticated manager
- The myths of management science and predictable futures
- Taking risks as a manager
- Learning from the Stoics
- Language as a tool
- Part 8. The complete manager
- What is a good job as a manager?
- What else do you need to do?
- Rights, wrongs, ethics and behaviour
- Excelling in your career
- Part 9. The developing manager
- Help is at hand
- Reaching externally
- The tools for the job
- Using your annual appraisal
- Conclusion
- Index
