Managing for People Who Hate Managing: Be a Success by Being Yourself

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Professional success, more often than not, means becoming a manager. Yet nobody prepared you for having to deal with messy tidbits like emotions, conflicts, and personalities—all while achieving ever-greater goals and meeting ever-looming deadlines. Not exactly what you had in mind, is it? Don’t panic. Devora Zack has the tools to help you succeed and even thrive as a manager. Drawing on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Zack introduces two primary management styles—thinkers and feelers—and guides you in developing a management style that fits who you really are. She takes you through a host of potentially difficult situations, showing how this new way of understanding yourself and others makes managing less of a stumble in the dark and more of a walk in the park. Her enlightening examples, helpful exercises, and lifesaving tips make this book the new go-to guide for all those managers looking to love their jobs again Content: Introduction : Welcome to the Electrifying World of Management -- One : Why You Hate It, Why I Wrote This -- Two : Who Are You? -- Three : Feelers Think and Thinkers Feel -- Four : But I Liked My Real Job! -- Five : Flex for Success -- Six : Lonely @ the Top -- Seven : Being Bossy -- Eight : Don't Cry in My Office ... I Have a Deadline to Meet -- Nine : Inside, Outside, Upside Down -- Ten : Charisma 'n' You -- Eleven : Bonus Track : This Amp Goes to Eleven! -- Signing Off : You're STILL Here? -- Notes -- Relevant Reads -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- About Only Connect Consulting, Inc. -- Author Trivia.