The Essential Manager: 30 Core Elements of Leadership

The Essential Manager offers a wealth of down-to-earth guidance which encourages managers to reflect upon, and perhaps consider changing, how they currently respond to some common trials and tribulations (and joys) of managerial life. The 30 topics are presented across three dimensions which directly impact upon any manager's ability to shine:

Part 1 – About You begins with a focus on you, because no manager can ever hope to bring the best out of others until he or she first gets the most from themselves.

Part 2 – About Employees concentrates on important aspects of leading and managing employees, who are, after all, the people who can help a manager to achieve his or her personal and business goals.

Part 3 – About Business is concerned with some key activities associated with managing any business or function. For instance, it addresses subjects very much to the fore at present, like strategic planning and managing change.

The 30 management essentials presented in the book are intended to get readers to think about their performance and, based on those reflections, to consider how they can get better at what they currently do, and this applies regardless of their level of experience in the management game.