The Aspiring Manager's Survival Guide

by Johnson, Mike

• ISBN13: 9780750627030
• ISBN10: 0750627034
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-10-01
• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann

Summary

The Aspiring Manager's Survival Guide is an investigation into the new working world and how managers can survive in it. Using in-depth interviews, ideas and research based on senior business executives and consultants, this book shows individual managers how to assess their options, realize their potential, and create a sense of self-motivation. Mike Johnson brings a practical, impartial and positive tone to the debate on tomorrow's work patterns. Johnson looks at: * Why organisations are rebuilding hierarchies and pyramids - but with different people * Why new knowledge-based, multi-skilled networks are taking business from traditional firms * How you fit in to it all Each chapter concludes with an evaluation questionnaire, allowing readers to rate themselves and their prospects against a final summary at the end of the book. Whether you're getting out, staying in or going it alone, The Aspiring Manager's Survival Guide explains how you can do it. This is an easy-to-read, fast paced book for business people Includes interviews with 'star names' from the world of business A personal 'this is for you' approach

Table of Contents

Introduction

Why is there a new world of work?

Taking hold of your own destiny: inside the organization

Getting it together in the new organizational framework

Don't wait for someone else to help you

Getting out

How to get (re)hired

So you want to go it alone?

Checklists for action

Bibliography

Index.