Managing More with Less
Handling multiple priorities
1st Edition
Published on 8. April 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
204 pages
978-0-7506-3698-8 (ISBN)
Description
Managing More with Less is an innovative book linking a range of core management skills and re-interpreting them to meet current organizational needs. Aimed at managers in flat organizations, this book shows you how to deal with increasingly scarce resources to maintain a high level of productivity.
The New Skills Portfolio is a groundbreaking new series, published in association with the Industrial Society, which re-defines the core management skills managers and team leaders need to be competitive. Each title is action-focused blending management initiatives/trends with a new flexible skills portfolio.
The Industrial Society is one of the largest public training providers in the UK. It has over 10,000 member organisations and promotes best practice through its publishing, consultancy, training and advisory services. For more information contact their website on www.indsoc.co.uk.
The New Skills Portfolio is a groundbreaking new series, published in association with the Industrial Society, which re-defines the core management skills managers and team leaders need to be competitive. Each title is action-focused blending management initiatives/trends with a new flexible skills portfolio.
The Industrial Society is one of the largest public training providers in the UK. It has over 10,000 member organisations and promotes best practice through its publishing, consultancy, training and advisory services. For more information contact their website on www.indsoc.co.uk.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional Practice & Development
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 189 mm
Weight
380 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7506-3698-8 (9780750636988)
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Managing More with Less
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Managing More with Less
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08/2012
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Managing More with Less
E-Book
08/2012
1st Edition
Routledge
€39.49
Available for download
Person
Joanna Howard works with individual and organisations in the areas of organisational transitions and personal self-development. She is also lecturer and set adviser with Sheffield Business School on their MSc in Managing Change. She worked until 1996 at Roffey Park Management Institute, on corporate programmes, as Programme Director on the MBA, and as Director or Research initiating research into emerging challenges such as the management of part-time workers, managing creative groups, and understanding diversity. She has an ongoing interest in ways of thinking and learning that make sense in today's business and social world. Earlier in her life she lived in Nigeria, Fiji and Sudan. She now lives in London and has three grown-up children.
Content
Chapter 1 Thinking skills - unclutter your thinking; Chapter 2 Using project management thinking to increase your effectiveness; Chapter 3 Prioritising intelligently realistically and proactively; Chapter 4 Influencing without authority; Chapter 5 Managing with more differences and less problems; Chapter 6 Understanding your relationship with time; Chapter 7 Looking after yourself - your greatest asset; Chapter 8 Developing your potential; Chapter 9 You as part of the system; Chapter 10 In conclusion;