The Financial Times guide to management
Subtitle: how to make a difference and get results
By: Ann Francke
Edition: First edition.
Series: Financial Times guides; Financial times guides
Publisher: FT Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780273792864
Subjects: Leadership; Management; Communication in management; Organizational change
Other titles: Guide to management :; Management :
Description: From motivating a team and developing star talent to controlling budgets and fostering innovation, this is an authoritative guide to becoming an effective manager. Full of practical tips and advice, this handbook offers solutions to the everyday challenges of: Managing yourself ; Developing communication skills and emotional intelligence ; Managing others ; Setting strategic direction ; Managing change ; Managing money, resources and technology. There is also on-the-ground advice from the executive frontline, with insights from leaders including Paul Polman (CEO, Unilever), Steve Marshall (Chairman, Balfour Beatty) and Cilla Snowball (Chairman and CEO, AMV BBDO).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: About the author; title: About CMI; title: Introduction; title: Managing yourself. What kind of manager are you? ; Getting things done ; Managing your career; title: Developing skills that make a difference. Communicating well ; Understanding others; title: Managing others. Coaching, motivating and developing others ; Hiring, firing and reshaping talent ; How to engage, evaluate and align employees ; Performing teams and productive meetings; title: Setting direction and achieving results. Setting a strategy ; Making strategy actionable ; Creating a culture ; Getting results and how to measure them; title: Managing change. How to manage change ; Designing and delivering innovation ; Managing stakeholders, with customers at the centre; title: Managing money, resources and technology. Project management basics ; Managing budgets and other financials ; Understanding digital and big data; title: The last word. Views from the front line ; Views from FT's finest ; A guide to gurus.