Brilliant Manager
What the Best Managers
Know, Do and Say

By Nic Peeling
November 2005
Financial Times / Prentice Hall
ISBN: 0273702130
184 pages, Illustrated, 5 ½" x 8 ½"
$43.50 Paper Original

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Every manager wants to be brilliant - to be the best they can be. We all want to be successful and respected. We all want to do the right thing in the right situation to get the result we want. Brilliant Manger is designed to give you a head start over those learning just from experience. It contains an invaluable mixture of generally agreed best practice and the experience of others to provide tools, tactics and techniques for every situation.

The book provides guiding principles to manage by and the handful of most valuable things you need to know and do in a broad range of managerial situations. There is a lot that can be said about management and leadership that can be described in very black and white terms, but often isn't. This book is designed for every frontline manager. Based on management theory, management science and experience, translated into pure practice. Read it, refer to it frequently and refresh your memory regularly. That way you'll be primed and prepared for every situation and will be on the managerial fast track for effectiveness.

Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 Managing people
Chapter 2 Leadership
Chapter 3 Culture
Chapter 4 Managing different types of people
Chapter 5 Organizing your team
Chapter 6 Business management
Chapter 7 Managing your organization
Chapter 8 Key management themes
Chapter 9 Knowing it, doing it, saying it
Conclusions
Index

Author
Dr Nic Peeling is a research scientist at DERA - The Defence, Evaluation, and Research Agency . It was when he was promoted to be a manager of research scientists, leading a team of fifteen people, that he went to look for a book to tell him what he really needed to know about management. He couldn't find anything that revealed what brilliant managers know, do and say. So he set out to research and write one. Here it is!


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