The Leading-Edge Manager's Guide to Success: Strategies and Better Practices - Hardcover

Parmenter, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470920432 ISBN 13: 9780470920435

Publisher: Wiley, 2011

Synopsis

Practical, commonsense advice on becoming an effective leader

Examining the baggage that most managers have and then helping them to understand the personal traits that can limit their potential, this book guides you through the pathway of self development, then takes you through management and leadership better practices, providing many implementation tools.

• All you need to know when getting prepared for a 'management role'
• How to develop 'conquest leadership' attributes
• Traits to make you a 'winning' CEO
• Latest thinking on KPIs, quarterly rolling planning, decision based reporting and performance related pay
• How to create Winning Management and Leadershp Habits
• Examines how to become More Financially Aware

This book is a very practical guide with templates, 'how to do it tools', stories about gifted leaders, checklists and examples and is devoid of all intellectual arguments on management. With directional guidance on what managers need to know in order to be able to manage and lead others, The Leading-Edge Manager's Guide to Success helps managers and 'managers to be' as they climb the 'management mountain'.

About this title

About the Author

DAVID PARMENTER is an international presenter who is known for his thought-provoking and lively sessions that have led to substantial change in many organizations. He is a leading expert in the development of winning KPIs, replacing the annual planning process with quarterly rolling planning, and management practices that will get you to the top. David has delivered workshops to thousands of attendees in many cities around the world. He is also the author of Key Performance Indicators: Developing, Implementing, and Using Winning KPIs, Pareto's 80/20 Rule for Corporate Accountants, and Winning CFOs: Implementing and Applying Better Practices (all from Wiley). David Parmenter can be contacted via parmenter@waymark.co.nz or or +64 4 499 0007. His website, www.davidparmenter.com, contains many white papers, articles, and freeware that will be useful to the reader.

From the Back Cover

This book takes a holistic view as to what skills and knowledge are required to be a leader who makes a difference. It recognizes that in order to summit the management mountain, we need to understand the personal traits that can limit our potential. After guiding the reader through the pathway of self-development, the book takes managers through management better practices providing many implementation tools. It is based on those practices you need to master as you climb the management mountain, culminating in what makes a CEO special.

The Leading-Edge Manager's Guide to Success includes the observations and wisdom from David Parmenter, who, through his workshops, articles, and books, has emerged as a thought leader on better management practices and performance measurement. Written in an easy-to-absorb style and entertaining manner, this is a pragmatic guide for managers and leaders no matter where they are in climbing the management mountain. This book also has sections that are addressed to CEOs and senior managers. In other words, this book contains material to interest all, including:

• Practical, commonsense guidance with the A-to-Z on how to be an effective leader
• Hundreds of better practices that will make a difference
• A detailed section on personal development, giving directional guidance on what you need to know about yourself in order to be able to manage and lead others
• Issues as diverse as treasure mapping, personal baggage, self-recognition, and selling by emotional drivers in a management context
• The latest thinking on KPIs, quarterly rolling planning, decision-based reporting, and performance-related pay
• A unique serving leadership model based on the great conquest leaders Sir Ernest Shackleton, Sir Edmund Hillary, and Sir Winston Churchill
• A companion website featuring an abundance of pragmatic and helpful tools and webcasts

From the Inside Flap

This book takes a holistic view as to what skills and knowledge are required to be a leader who makes a difference. It recognizes that in order to summit the management mountain, we need to understand the personal traits that can limit our potential. After guiding the reader through the pathway of self-development, the book takes managers through management better practices providing many implementation tools. It is based on those practices you need to master as you climb the management mountain, culminating in what makes a CEO special.

The Leading-Edge Manager's Guide to Success includes the observations and wisdom from David Parmenter, who, through his workshops, articles, and books, has emerged as a thought leader on better management practices and performance measurement. Written in an easy-to-absorb style and entertaining manner, this is a pragmatic guide for managers and leaders no matter where they are in climbing the management mountain. This book also has sections that are addressed to CEOs and senior managers. In other words, this book contains material to interest all, including:

• Practical, commonsense guidance with the A-to-Z on how to be an effective leader

• Hundreds of better practices that will make a difference

• A detailed section on personal development, giving directional guidance on what you need to know about yourself in order to be able to manage and lead others

• Issues as diverse as treasure mapping, personal baggage, self-recognition, and selling by emotional drivers in a management context

• The latest thinking on KPIs, quarterly rolling planning, decision-based reporting, and performance-related pay

• A unique serving leadership model based on the great conquest leaders Sir Ernest Shackleton, Sir Edmund Hillary, and Sir Winston Churchill

• A companion website featuring an abundance of pragmatic and helpful tools and webcasts

An indispensable tool for all business professionals, The Leading-Edge Manager's Guide to Success provides a practical, how-to guide to help you define, develop, create, and maintain leadership excellence.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470920432
• ISBN 13: 9780470920435
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400