McCormack On Managing

In McCormack on Managing one of the world's most admired entrepreneurs takes takes readers from the basics to the finer points of managing people, crises and growth. You will learn:

• Why it's all right to encourage mistakes (but not too many)
• The five attributes of a leader
• How to define a core business
• The signs of a buttoned-up company
• How to ask questions that make performance reviews matter
• What's wrong (and right) about organization charts
• How to manage creative people (they are different, but only slightly)
• Simple methods to make meetings effective

This is one of a series of business books in which Mark McCormack, drawing on his personal experience and extraordinary success, focuses on key disciplines and shares his philosophy in the candid, anecdote-rich style that has made him an international bestseller.

• Introduction: There Are No Buzzwords here

1. How Anyone Can Manage Me
2. The Tools at Your Disposal
3. How to Acquire and Maintain Authority
4. Hiring the Best Talent and Keeping It
5. Making Smarter Decisions
6. Making Meetings Matter More
7. Cutting Costs
8. Assessing and Rewarding People Fairly
9. Advanced Techniques
10. What's Your Managing IQ?

A pretty good book about the commonsense stuff you seldom learn on an MBA course.