Simply Managing: What Managers Do - and Can Do Better (Financial Times Series) - Softcover

Mintzberg, Henry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1292001577 ISBN 13: 9781292001579

Publisher: FT Publishing International, 2013

Synopsis

This book slims down his award-winning work Managing (2009) and provides streamlined advice to help new and experienced managers get it right.

 

Simply Managing answers questions including:

• How do I deal with the pressures of management?
• What are the most important elements of my job? And how do I get them right?
• How do I connect in a job that’s intrinsically disconnected?
• How do I maintain confidence without becoming arrogant?
• What are the cornerstones of effective management?

 

It provides thoughtful, yet practical advice from one of the world’s most influential management thinkers.

About this title

Review:

Winner of the Chartered Management Institute's Management Book of the Year award.

One of strategy+business magazine's top three management books of the year.

One of the Toronto Globe and Mail's top ten business books of the year:
"Henry Mintzberg is a fine writer, with a penchant for humor."

One of Choice magazine's top ten outstanding books of the year:
"Mintzberg does not accept conventional wisdom --he challenges it constantly...erudite as well as practical."

One of Library Journal's top business books of the year.

From the Back Cover:

“When it comes to management, Mintzberg’s opinions matter.”

People Management

 

“Henry Mintzberg’s views are a breath of fresh air which can only encourage the good guys.”

The Observer

 

For years Henry Mintzberg has asked people what happened the day they became a manager. The response, “almost always puzzled looks, then shrugs. You are supposed to figure it out for yourself. Like sex, I suppose, usually with equally embarrassing initial consequences”.

 

This book slims down his award-winning work Managing (2009) and provides streamlined advice to help new and experienced managers get it right.

 

Simply Managing answers questions including:

• How do I deal with the pressures of management?
• What are the most important elements of my job? And how do I get them right?
• How do I connect in a job that’s intrinsically disconnected?
• How do I maintain confidence without becoming arrogant?
• What are the cornerstones of effective management?

It provides thoughtful, yet practical advice from one of the world’s most influential management thinkers.

 

MAKING SENSE OF THE WORLD’S MOST IMPORTANT JOB.

 

About this edition

• Publisher: FT Publishing International
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1292001577
• ISBN 13: 9781292001579
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208