- Paperback: 296 pages
- Publisher: Pearson Business; 2 edition (22 May 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0273726986
- ISBN-13: 978-0273726982
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.6 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 199,189 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"This could easily be the best book on management so far... an entertaining and instructive guide... If you know of an aspiring manager, give them this as a present immediately. If that aspiring manager is you, head straight for the bookshop or log on and obtain this essential survival manual... It is hard valuable advice thatr you will not regret reading and putting into practice." - Personnel Today
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This is the ultimate ‘how to’ of management, covering all the vital hard and soft skills of management but in a readable, witty and wise form. This unique book contains all the critical information found in large manuals but delivers it in the preferred more inspiring and personal form of a readable handbook.
As every frontline manager knows, the theory of management is one thing but the actual day-to-day real life experience can be something else. In the real world, busy managers need to know what to do and how to be as effective, productive and successful as possible. This is the first book to cover the 30 essential hard and soft skills of a ‘manual’ but in a readable, easily absorbed and insightful way.
If you're only going to read one book on management ever, this is it.
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43 of 45 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Reading most Western management books, it is easy to see why the West has been losing ground to the East over the last 25 years. You either get a business man boasting about their way, or you get an impractical academic with no real experience pushing a second rate theory.
This book, at last, is different. It made me take notice. It is highly practical: the stories used to illustrate the points made are clearly real world and make immediate sense to anyone who works in an organisation.
How to Manage is covers lots of practical skills in three areas: EQ (Emotional Quotient), IQ (Intelligence Quotient) and PQ (Political Quotient). IQ and EQ are made presented as a series of learnable skills. You do not have to be a genius to be a smart manager: you can learn the skills. PQ is the most interesting bit. I thought this would be all about how to advance your career. Instead, it is about how you make things happen when your responsibility is greater than your resources. That is a familiar challenge to most managers today, and How to Manage gave lots of ideas on how to deal with this challenge. Much of this section was new to me, but made sense when I thought about both Western and Japanese organisations I have worked for.
This is the first good management from the West which I have read.
This book, at last, is different. It made me take notice. It is highly practical: the stories used to illustrate the points made are clearly real world and make immediate sense to anyone who works in an organisation.
How to Manage is covers lots of practical skills in three areas: EQ (Emotional Quotient), IQ (Intelligence Quotient) and PQ (Political Quotient). IQ and EQ are made presented as a series of learnable skills. You do not have to be a genius to be a smart manager: you can learn the skills. PQ is the most interesting bit. I thought this would be all about how to advance your career. Instead, it is about how you make things happen when your responsibility is greater than your resources. That is a familiar challenge to most managers today, and How to Manage gave lots of ideas on how to deal with this challenge. Much of this section was new to me, but made sense when I thought about both Western and Japanese organisations I have worked for.
This is the first good management from the West which I have read.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have just finished reading "How to manage", and I enjoyed it a lot. This book is witty, funny, informative, and a pleasure to read. I did not have to force myself to read it, as I feared I would have to: I looked forward to reading each new chapter and each funny story. True, I am a civil servant and a few (not many) of the descriptions and examples do not fit 100% with our rather static world, but most still do (and apply in other walks of life, I suspect).
This is an entertaining and moving book, particularly in its last lines, a delightful conclusion to a thoroughly enjoyable read. It is clear that for Jo, success in management is not to be pursued per se, but only if it leads to a better and more fulfilling life, in all dimensions. Otherwise, why do it?
This is an entertaining and moving book, particularly in its last lines, a delightful conclusion to a thoroughly enjoyable read. It is clear that for Jo, success in management is not to be pursued per se, but only if it leads to a better and more fulfilling life, in all dimensions. Otherwise, why do it?
17 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book has all the answers in a practical and easy-to-read format. I would highly recommend this book to all managers, would-be managers, students in management or any other discipline which requires management. It has helped me manage myself through a non-management degree as it has valuable information on many aspects of self-management as well as that of others.
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"Quick reference handbook"
This book was recommended to me as a "quick reference, cheat handbook". Much of the contents is common sense however is written in ways that reinvigorate the common sense... Read more
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The author groups management skills into three areas:
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having been on a number of courses I have found this book really useful. It really focuses on the reality of managing rather then just the theory. Practical and useful
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Good advice but hard to incorporate sometimes
This book offers sound advice if you work in a profit based organisation. As a public sector working it is hard to incorporate this into my work.
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