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Management Skills A Jossey-Bass Reader

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ISBN-10: 0787973416

ISBN-13: 9780787973414

Edition: 2005

Authors: Jossey-Bass Publishers, Jossey-Bass Publishers

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Presenting a comprehensive collection of the best thinking on management written by leading authorities in the field, this work draws on a wide-variety of important articles providing a primer for understanding the basics of managing organizations.
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Book details

List price: $50.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/25/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 832
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.06" long x 1.65" tall
Weight: 2.662
Language: English

Preface
Acknowledgments
What Makes a Great Manager?
Leadership Is Authenticity, Not Style
Credibility Is the Foundation of Leadership
Management vs. Leadership
Rounding Out the Manager's Job
The New Managerial Work
The Postcapitalist Executive: An Interview with Peter F. Drucker
Creating and Shaping the Work Environment
Seven Practices of Successful Organizations
Hire the Right People
Managing the Interview Process
Employment Law from a Manager's Perspective
Pick Relevant Metrics
How Change Really Comes About
Learning to Lead Change: The New Principles for CEOs and Companies
Communicating, Leading, and Motivating People
The Manager as Politician
Artful Listening
Establish Competence and Build Trust
Read People: Identifying Emotions
The Seven Essentials of Encouraging
Motivating and Satisfying Excellent Individuals
How to Give Feedback
Developmental Relationships
Getting the Work Done
The Call for Results
Operating Within the Realities of Organizational Life
Solving the Problem of Bad Meetings
Politically Astute Negotiating
Deal with Your Crises
Leading Complex Organizational Processes
Dealing with Conflict
Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Myths and Realities of Leading Virtual Teams
Building Companies Where Innovation Is a Way of Life
Sustaining the Great Manager
Leading from Within
Reflective Action
From Success to Significance
If Not Me, Then Who? If Not Now, When?
Notes and References
Name Index
Subject Index