How to Manage / Jo Owen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Owen, Jo, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Management--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Management.

Leadership--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Leadership.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 pages)

Edition:

Sixth edition.

Place of Publication:

Harlow, England : Pearson Education, Limited, [2022]

Summary:

Managing well is about getting things done. And everyone can learn to be a better manager. This book will show you what you need to do.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

About the author

About the sixth edition

Publishers acknowledgement

1. Introduction and summary: real managers for the real world

Rational management

Emotional management

Political management

Management quotient

2. Rational management skills: dealing with problems, tasks and money

Starting at the end: focus on outcomes

Achieving results: performance and perceptions

Making decisions: acquiring intuition fast

Solving problems: prisons and frameworks - and tools

Strategic thinking: floors, romantics and the classics

Financial skills

Setting budgets: the politics of performance

Managing budgets: the annual dance routine

Managing costs: minimising pain

Surviving spreadsheets: assumptions, not maths

Using time effectively: activity versus achievement

3. Emotional management skills: dealing with people

Motivating people: creating willing followers

Building the high-performance team: the RAMP model

Managing professionals: managing people who do not want to be managed

Managing people you cannot see: building remote and hybrid teams

Persuading people: how to sell anything

Coaching: no more training

Delegating: doing better by doing less

Handling conflict: from FEAR to EAR

Minding your mind: the management mindset

Learning the right behaviours: what your team really wants

4. Political management skills: acquiring power to make things happen

The ten laws of power: achieving PQ

Taking control: the power of ideas

Managing change: people, not projects

Managing the change process

People and change: through the valley of death

Making things happen: managing projects

The art of unreasonable management: ruthlessness

Managing your boss: and difficult people.

Managing your career: career is a noun and a verb

Playing the game: manage the politics

Achieving and using influence: become the trusted manager

5. Management quotient skills: managing your journey

Managing your career journey: your 45-year map

Stepping up: first-time and accidental managers

Into the matrix: leading from the middle

Reaching the summit: top-level management

Acquiring MQ: how to learn success

Employing MQ: uses and abuses

Decoding your success formula: your journey

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Incluye índice.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781292426464

1292426462

9781292426471

1292426470

OCLC:

1338840082