McCormack On Managing

Mark H. McCormack

Publisher: Arrow, 1996, 252 pages

ISBN: 0-09-953661-7

Keywords: Leadership, Management

Last modified: March 17, 2021, 11:17 p.m.

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?

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McCormack On Managing

Reviewed by Roland Buresund

Decent ****** (6 out of 10)

Last modified: Oct. 18, 2010, 1:31 a.m.

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

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