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A Guide to Managing Earthlings (Paperback)
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A Guide to Managing Earthlings (Paperback)
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This book will permanently change the way you run your business.
Combining his years of IBM management training with some critically
important management templates for the new Millennium, he takes you
through real life situations in a narrative style. It's fun reading
and very moving at times. Spiced throughout the book are bold-type
statements that all begin: "Here's the Rule: " The most critical
rule is for managers to focus on WHAT vs. HOW. Real executives know
"what" to do. Annoying bosses focus on personalities and "how"
people are acting. Crossing the bridge from the annoying world of
"how" management to the productive world of "what" management takes
a bit of education and lots of examples. This newest version has a
section on Millennials that may change your approach. It's all
counterintuitive and you need to understand how that works. The
Millennial challenge is forcing us to rethink how we have been
approaching the treatment of people for the last two hundred years.
Perhaps the most important addition to this book is the chapter at
the end which lists 60 summary concepts - his Lefthander's Guide to
Managing. Here are some examples: A manager's job is to create
problems for your employees to solve, not solve them all yourself.
A proper vision statement doesn't tell you where you're going to be
in 5 years; it changes who you are right now And if you know who
you are, you will know what to do. You must earn the right to
criticize, even if you're the boss. Performance must become a
third-party element that you discuss objectively and collegially.
If the list for improving morale has more than two elements, you're
reading from the wrong list. Make the decision, then clean up the
mess. Quit hedging or waiting until it's all fixed in advance. We
leaders need to view ourselves as the head of a tribe because our
employees view themselves as members of a tribe, instinctively.
They don't want to see themselves as replaceable parts in some
organic machine. When we treat them that way, we hurt not only them
but everyone around them because we disrupt an instinctive, tribal
sense of what should be. Any short-term gain achieved by removing
that one part is greatly outweighed by the systemic damage done by
creating an environment that is not secure for all. That's the
practicality and the humanity of it. The sad thing is, most
managers have no training and therefore no way of forming a basis
to determine truly good management. A Guide to Managing Earthlings
tries to make up for the fact that most companies don' have a
management culture. It's a book that will help create the basis for
such a culture and success in business will follow. It's an
enjoyable book to read, even if you don't plan to manage Earthlings
or anyone else."
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