Key Management Tools: Quick Techniques to Direct Your Business (Financial Times) - Hardcover

Lambert, Tom

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0273603841 ISBN 13: 9780273603849

Publisher: Pearson Education Limited, 1993

Synopsis

Key Management Tools
50 Time-saving Techniques to Solve Everyday Business Problems
Key Management Tools is a practical volume of "how to" tools and job instructions which will help you to achieve the essential tasks in the shortest possible time, with the least effort and least cost. Each chapter is devoted to a key area of business, has one or more definitions of excellence and ends with a summary of the pitfalls to be avoided.
Key Management Tools:
provides a complete kit for strategic planning and implementation
presents tools for motivation, team building and leadership skills
focuses on problem solving and decision-making
approaches financial management from the perspective of the non-financial manager
develops models of the organisation and offers tools to understand attitudes to change and culture
develops tool and models to identify training needs and to design, develop and conduct training.

About this title

Synopsis

All managers need to organise and structure the direction of their business or operation quickly and effectively. This book provides a complete range of timesaving management tools, e.g. strategic planning tools, tools to motivate, build teams and negotiate effectively as well as tools to model the competition. For each management tool the book shows what the tool is, how it can be used, when it is useful, and what some of the common pitfalls are. This book provides the manager with current, validated and practical tools to build the competitiveness and long-term security of the organisation. It covers strategic and tactical planning tools for all sizes and types of organisation. It describes the value of the tools, shows how to use them effectively, describes when they are useful and provides quick techniques for managers to identify and solve problems. It is aimed at senior and middle managers in both the public and private sector.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson Education Limited
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0273603841
• ISBN 13: 9780273603849
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256