Making a Difference: The Pragmatic Approach of an Interim Manager - Softcover

Lovegrove, Harley

 
9789020973709: Making a Difference: The Pragmatic Approach of an Interim Manager
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9020973703 ISBN 13: 9789020973709
Publisher: Lannoo Publishers, 2008

Synopsis

In business, one is continually faced with challenges and problems of every sort. Some businesses adopt a formal methodology to tackle them, while others merely improvise. Either way, the results of their efforts are often disappointing. Without a lasting solution, managers find the same problems resurfacing time and again.In this very personal and inspiring book, Harley Lovegrove, an interim manager with over 25 years of commercial and industrial experience, takes a broad view on effective problem solving and project management. He shares with us his proven nine-step approach to identifying and tackling the fundamental issues that are key to achieving genuine and lasting results - even for problems that seem to be impossible to solve or too risky to tackle. Illustrated throughout with Harley's own personal anecdotes and stories, "Making a Difference" is an insightful and entertaining compilation of practical tools and techniques aimed at helping managers to understand and overcome the challenges that confront them.

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About the Author

Harley Lovegrove is an experienced interim manager and a managing partner of The Bayard Partnership, a Brussels-based interim management consultancy serving a wide range of national and international accounts. He has taken on numerous interim management posts, working for a variety of businesses from high technology and software to petrochemicals, transport and mobile telecommunications.

From the Back Cover

In business, one is continually faced with challenges and problems of every sort. Some businesses adopt a formal methodology to tackle them, while others merely improvise. Either way, the results of their efforts are often disappointing. Without a lasting solution, managers find the same problems resurfacing time and again. In this very personal and inspiring book, Harley Lovegrove, an interim manager with over 25 years of commercial and industrial experience, takes a broad view on effective problem solving and project management. He shares with us his proven nine-step approach to identifying and tackling the fundamental issues that are key to achieving genuine and lasting results - even for problems that seem to be impossible to solve or too risky to tackle. Illustrated throughout with Harley's own personal anecdotes and stories, Making a Difference is an insightful and entertaining compilation of practical tools and techniques aimed at helping managers to understand and overcome the challenges that confront them.

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Publisher
Lannoo Publishers
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9020973703
ISBN 13 
9789020973709
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
228