The Chameleon Manager (New Skills Portfolio) - Softcover

Clegg, Brian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 075064026X ISBN 13: 9780750640268

Publisher: Routledge, 1998

Synopsis

Today's managers are faced with many conflicting demands and situations. This book provides practical ways of achieving the impossible:

*How can you be a generalist and a specialist?
*An individual expert and a 'connected' team player?
*Manage more people with less time and fewer resources and be entrepreneurial at the same time?

Complete with its own website, which gives further information and links to other sites.

The New Skills Portfolio is a groundbreaking new series, published in association with the Industrial Society, which re-defines the core management skills managers and team leaders need to be competitive. Each title is action-focused blending 20th century management initiatives/trends with a new flexible skills portfolio.

The Industrial Society is one of the largest public training providers in the UK. It has over 10,000 member organisations and promotes best practice through its publishing, consultancy, training and advisory services. For more information contact their website on www.indsoc.co.uk

Outlines the range of new skills needed by managers in changing organizations
Complete with its own website, which gives further information and links to other sites.
Published in association with the Industrial Society

About this title

From the Back Cover

Today's managers are faced with many conflicting demands and situations. This book provides practical ways of achieving the impossible: * How can you be a generalist and a specialist? * An individual expert and a 'connected' team player? * Manage more people with less time * Develop the skills to build a new career when the job for life has become an anachronism. The Chameleon Manager provides the range of new skills that professionals and managers need to survive and flourish in the ever-changing business environment. It is about re-assessing your working life, finding new opportunities and exploiting them, from increasing your knowledge of team dynamics to making use of the vast power of a good personal network. The Chameleon Manager is all about finding and maintaining your preferred portfolio of activities and developing the skills to make it happen.

About the Author

After 17 years in the corporate world, specialising in finding innovative ways of using computers and information to benefit business, Brian Clegg established himself as a freelance writer and consultant on both creativity and human/computer interface. He has provided consultancy to large and small companies in the financial, travel, pharmaceutical and IT sectors, and is a regular contributor to PC Week, Personal Computer World and the World Wide Web based magazine, VNU/Net. Co-author, with Paul Birch, of Business Creativity, (1995), Imagination Engineering (1996) and Dis-Organization (1998). Author of The Chameleon Manager (1998) for the Butterworth Heinemann New Skills Portfolio.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 075064026X
• ISBN 13: 9780750640268
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224