How to Manage: The Definitive Guide to Effective Management

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"How to Manage remains the classic text on building the rational, political and emotional skills you need to succeed. This sixth edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect the new world of work, which requires managers to up their game and to change their game. This has required extensive original global research to discover and record emerging best practices in the new world of hybrid work. That research is captured in this edition"-- Front Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents About the author About the sixth edition Publishers acknowledgement 1. Introduction and summary: real managers for the real world Rational management Emotional management Political management Management quotient 2. Rational management skills: dealing with problems, tasks and money Starting at the end: focus on outcomes Achieving results: performance and perceptions Making decisions: acquiring intuition fast Solving problems: prisons and frameworks – and tools Strategic thinking: floors, romantics and the classics Financial skills Setting budgets: the politics of performance Managing budgets: the annual dance routine Managing costs: minimising pain Surviving spreadsheets: assumptions, not maths Using time effectively: activity versus achievement 3. Emotional management skills: dealing with people Motivating people: creating willing followers Building the high-performance team: the RAMP model Managing professionals: managing people who do not want to be managed Managing people you cannot see: building remote and hybrid teams Persuading people: how to sell anything Coaching: no more training Delegating: doing better by doing less Handling conflict: from FEAR to EAR Minding your mind: the management mindset Learning the right behaviours: what your team really wants 4. Political management skills: acquiring power to make things happen The ten laws of power: achieving PQ Taking control: the power of ideas Managing change: people, not projects Managing the change process People and change: through the valley of death Making things happen: managing projects The art of unreasonable management: ruthlessness Managing your boss: and difficult people Managing your career: career is a noun and a verb Playing the game: manage the politics Achieving and using influence: become the trusted manager 5. Management quotient skills: managing your journey Managing your career journey: your 45-year map Stepping up: first-time and accidental managers Into the matrix: leading from the middle Reaching the summit: top-level management Acquiring MQ: how to learn success Employing MQ: uses and abuses Decoding your success formula: your journey Index Back Cover