Just Add Management: Seven Steps to Creating a Productive Workplace and Motivating Your Employees In Challenging Times

A manager's tough-love guide to rebuilding corporate value

After more than a decade of experimentation, hands-off managment has proven to be a bust. When managers don't know what their people are doing all day, budgets soar and profits plummet. Just Add Management offers managers a clear, practical program for getting employees back on track by:

• Refocusing corporate culture on getting work done
• Setting priorities and align projects with those priorities
• Creating and enforcing processes and tracking progress

Farzad and Rhonda Dibachi, a seasoned Silicon Valley husband-and-wife management team, bring unique technical and business backgrounds to the book, including expertise in helping companies focus on doing what matters and a mature, hardnosed approach to business.

Farzad Dibachi is the founder and chief executive of Niku. A legend in Silicon Valley, he has appeared on the covers of Upside and Red Herring and has been written about in the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Forbes, the New York Times, BusinessWeek, and Newsweek. Before forming Niku, Mr. Dibachi was the youngest vice president in Oracle's history. He is a frequent speaker at industry events such as the Project Leadership Conference and BusinessWeek conferences.

Rhonda Love Dibachi is the executive vice president of strategy and planning at Niku. She has held positions at Oracle, Arthur Young (now Ernst & Young), and General Electric.