How to Manage: The definitive guide to effective management

by Jo Owen

‘This could easily be the best book on management so far... an entertaining and instructive guide...’ Personnel Today ‘All the science tools and techniques that any manager will need to be successful.’ Graeme Duncan, Chief Executive, Right to Succeed ‘Jo Owen gets right to the heart of what great managers do and gives you the skills to practise so that you can become great’ James Toop, Chief Executive, Teaching Leader This book is the ultimate ‘how to’ of management. It distils the theory of management to give you both the practical techniques and soft skills you need to be a successful manager. Managing well is about getting things done. This book will show you how. How to Manage is the definitive how-to of management. Based on years of management practice in some of the world’s leading organisations, it cuts through the theory to show you how to develop the skills, behaviours, political abilities and emotions to thrive as a manager. In How to Manage you’ll learn · Evaluate your management potential · Assess each member of your team and help them discover how they can improve · Identify and build the core skills you need to do well · Recognise the rules of success in your particular organisation · Manage in a virtual world Changes for this Edition This new edition extends to managing your career and your management journey - it shows how the skills and rules of survival and success change at each level.

Genres: Business

304 pages, Paperback

First published August 3, 2015

About the author

Jo is the first person to be awarded the CMI gold medal three times, for Mindset of Success; How to Manage and Leadership Skills Handbook.

He practices what he preaches as a leader: he has started seven NGOs with a collective turnover above $100million annually. He was a partner at Accenture; he started a bank, was sued for $12 billion and was the best nappy (diaper) salesman in Birmingham.

His research on leadership has taken him to the ends of the earth and resulted in Tribal Business School: what modern business can learn from traditional societies. He has worked with over 100 of the best , and a few of the worst, organisations on our planet and has interviewed everyone from spies to sportspeople as well as leaders around the world to find the essence of leadership.

His latest work is on Global Teams, which is the first book to look at the plumbing of globalisation: how global teams do and do not work.

Reviews

[Daniel Hollands · Rating 5 out of 5]

IQ, EQ, and PQ

Does a good job of preparing a new manager for the challenges they’re likely to face. Things that they’d maybe be naive about, such as keeping on top of your political intelligence, just as much as your emotional intelligence, and your regular old intelligence.

It’s quite a dense, but has regular checkpoints where it quickly reminds you what it has covered in a form of handy ten-point lists, useful for a quick refresher. I made sure to get a copy of all these lists for my own future reference.