The Talented Manager: 67 Gems of Business Wisdom

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-36
A walk in the woods....Pages 37-39
Aberrant self-promotion at work....Pages 40-42
All the questions and all the answers....Pages 43-45
Appraisal systems....Pages 46-48
Beware of creatives....Pages 49-51
Blamestorming....Pages 52-54
Career success....Pages 55-57
The catch-phrase technique....Pages 58-60
Change....Pages 61-63
Charlatan detection....Pages 64-66
Child support....Pages 67-69
The content of job advertisements....Pages 70-72
Could do better....Pages 73-75
The dangers of forecasting....Pages 76-78
Different perspectives....Pages 79-81
Does coaching work?....Pages 82-84
The drive for money....Pages 85-87
The emotional contract at work....Pages 88-90
Esthetics at work....Pages 91-93
Evidence at work....Pages 94-96
Expansion....Pages 97-98
Faking it....Pages 99-101
Face-ism and shape-ism at work....Pages 102-104
Food at work....Pages 105-107
Gender and job satisfaction....Pages 108-110
Gossip is good for you....Pages 111-113
Hating HR....Pages 114-116
How management style leads directly to profit and loss....Pages 117-119
The hyper-moral obsessive....Pages 120-122
Improving references....Pages 123-124
Incentive schemes....Pages 125-127
Inspirational teachers....Pages 128-130
Interview techniques....Pages 131-133
The leader profit chain....Pages 134-136
The legacy problem....Pages 137-139
Lie detectors....Pages 140-142
Loafers, suckers and free-riders....Pages 143-145
Market research....Pages 146-148
Mentoring at work....Pages 149-151
Money as a motivator....Pages 152-154
The narcissistic manager....Pages 155-157
Nutters at work....Pages 158-160
The obsolescent CEO....Pages 161-163
Peanuts and monkeys....Pages 164-166
Power and status in organizations....Pages 167-169
Processes, profit and people....Pages 170-172
Protecting vulnerable customers....Pages 173-176
Quant Jocks and qual Jills....Pages 177-179
Recognition programs that don’t work....Pages 180-182
Religion at work....Pages 183-185
Resilience and hardiness....Pages 186-188
Resistance to change....Pages 189-191
The scientific understanding of the public....Pages 192-194
Seven lessons for appraisal....Pages 195-197
Showing off the CEO....Pages 198-200
Smarts....Pages 201-203
Spirituality at work....Pages 204-206
Striving for power....Pages 207-209
Surveillance at work....Pages 210-212
Taking care and taking charge....Pages 213-215
Taking offense....Pages 216-218
To do a Ph.D.....Pages 219-221
What is conscientiousness?....Pages 222-224
Whistle-blowing at work....Pages 225-227
Wit at work....Pages 228-230
The work ethic....Pages 231-233
Writing as therapy....Pages 234-236
Writing your own obituary....Pages 237-238