Essential Manager's Manual - Hardcover

Heller, Robert; Hindle, Tim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0789435195 ISBN 13: 9780789435194

Publisher: Dk Pub, 1998

Synopsis

In today's business arena, the ability to manage successfully is a prerequisite to any career path. The Essential Manager's Manual takes the mystery out of the art of management, offering clear, concise and realistic step-by-step advice that even the first-time manager can follow with success. The book is peppered with more than 1,200 power tips in a compartmentalized approach to management that will benefit even the most seasoned veteran with its comprehensive content and accessible point-of-view.
 
An understanding of what makes people perform and how to solve problems that affect performance in the workplace is key to exceptional management technique. All readers will find value in this book's priceless advice on subjects as diverse as greeting overseas business contacts, setting an agenda for a meeting, taking minutes, reorganizing the layout of an office, and holding a brainstorming session.
 
Fully recognizing that "cookie cutter" solutions simply don't work in today's complex professional world, Heller and Hindle offer options for each topic, allowing the reader to explore them through flowcharts and diagrams. In addition, self-evaluation forms help each individual reader assess their innate ability in each area, in order to focus their energies as they utilize the book. Well-chosen photographs illustrate situations and bring advice to life by demonstrating the personality types and situations described and ensuring that each lesson "clicks" for the reader, guaranteeing results after just one brisk reading.

The DK Essential Managers series covers a range of business and management topics and has sold more than two million copies worldwide. Each guide is clearly presented for ease of reference, with visual pointers, tips, and graphics.

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Review

Managers have a wide range of responsibilities, many of which include maximising the efficiency of their own time and work processes and ensuring that the people they manage are equipped with everything they need to function effectively and be productive and happy at work. This book covers many of the areas that a manager will need to be proficient in if they are to be successful at their job. There are chapters on communicating, time management, decision making, delegation, making presentations, interviewing, managing change and minimising stress, for example.

The emphasis is definitely on the practical, with real-life results always at the top of the agenda. To that end the text is punchy and to the point rather than rambling. Each chapter is clearly presented with plenty of tables, charts, checklists and self questionnaires to help you get the most from its content. Dotted around the pages you will find Power Tips--over 1200 of them in all-- designed to act as quick reference aids.

Some managers might only need to look at one or two of the areas covered in the book, and so Dorling Kindersley have published all 12 of the book's chapters individually in smaller pocketable handbooks. --Sandra Vogel

About the Author

Robert Heller is a leading authority on management consulting. He was the founding editor of Management Today and supervised the launch of a number of highly successful magazines including Campaign and Computing. He is the author of many acclaimed, worldwide bestselling books.

Tim Hindle is founder of the London-based business language consultancy Working Words. He was a contributor to The Economist for 25 years and was editor of EuroBusiness in the 1990s. As editorial consultant and author he has produced a number of titles including Pocket Manager and Guide to Management Ideas.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dk Pub
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0789435195
• ISBN 13: 9780789435194
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 864