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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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