FT Guide to Management
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From motivating a team and developing star talent to controlling budgets and fostering innovation, The Financial Times Guide to Management is your authoritative guide to becoming an effective manager.
Full of practical tips and advice, this definitive handbook offers solutions to the everyday challenges of:
- Managing yourself
- Developing communication skills and emotional intelligence
- Managing others
- Setting strategic direction
- Managing change
- Managing money, resources and technology
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Ann Francke is the CEO of the Chartered Management Institute. Prior to working at CMI, Ann was global MD of the BSI Group, and has also held executive board positions at Boots and Yell and was European Vice President at Mars. She hosts numerous CMI conferences every year and writes a regular column for Professional Manager.
Content
- Introduction: What is Management?
- Part I: Managing Yourself
- Chapter 1: What kind of manager are you?
- Chapter 2: Getting things done
- Chapter 3: Managing your career
- Part II: Developing Skills That Make a Difference
- Chapter 4: Communicating well
- Chapter 5: Understanding others (emotional intelligence)
- Part III: Managing Others
- Chapter 6: Coaching, motivating and developing others
- Chapter 7: Hiring firing and reshaping talent
- Chapter 8: How to engage, evaluate and align employees
- Chapter 9: Performing teams and productive meetings
- Part IV: Setting Direction and Achieving Results
- Chapter 10: Setting a strategy
- Chapter 11: Making strategy actionable
- Chapter 12: Creating cultures that work
- Chapter 13: Getting results and how to measure them
- Part V: Managing Change
- Chapter 14: How to manage change
- Chapter 15: Designing and delivering innovation
- Chapter 16: Managing stakeholders, with customers at the centre
- Part VI: Managing Money, Resources and Technology
- Chapter 17: Project management basics
- Chapter 18: Managing budgets and other financials
- Chapter 19: Understanding Digital and Big Data
- Advice from the Frontline
- Chapter 20: The Last Word - views from the front line
- Appendix
- A Guide to the Gurus
