The Manager's Survival Guide

Now translated into 12 languages! This reader-friendly, icon-rich series is must reading for managers at every level. All managers, whether brand-new to their positions or well established in the corporate hierarchy, can use a little "brushing up" now and then. The skills-based Briefcase Books series is filled with ideas and strategies to help managers become more capable, efficient, effective, and valuable to their corporations. In today's fast-changing, uncertain business environment, effective management is more difficult than ever. The Manager's Survival Guide is the first hands-on, broad-brush guidebook for handling difficult management situations with skill, diplomacy, and success. Keying on techniques for recognizing and dealing with problems quickly—or even before they begin—it explains how to set priorities, interface with both upper management and employees, implement process management, and more.