How to Manage : The Definitive Guide to Effective Management

‘This could easily be the best book on management so far... an entertaining and instructive guide...’ Personnel Today

‘All the science tools and techniques that any manager will need to be successful.’ Graeme Duncan, Chief Executive, Right to Succeed

‘Jo Owen gets right to the heart of what great managers do and gives you the skills to practise so that you can become great’ James Toop, Chief Executive, Teaching Leader

This book is the ultimate ‘how to’ of management. It distils the theory of management to give you both the practical techniques and soft skills you need to be a successful manager.

Managing well is about getting things done. This book will show you how.

How to Manage is the definitive how-to of management. Based on years of management practice in some of the world’s leading organisations, it cuts through the theory to show you how to develop the skills, behaviours, political abilities and emotions to thrive as a manager.

In How to Manage you’ll learn to:

· Evaluate your management potential

· Assess each member of your team and help them discover how they can improve

· Identify and build the core skills you need to do well

· Recognise the rules of success in your particular organisation

· Manage in a virtual world

Changes for this Edition

This new edition extends to managing your career and your management journey - it shows how the skills and rules of survival and success change at each level.

Jo Owen has worked with over 100 organisations around the world in most major industries and has written 15 books on leadership and management including the best-selling How to Lead, How to Manage and Tribal Business School. He is the founder of eight charities which have a collective turnover of £100 million and was awarded the OBE by the Queen for starting Teach First which is now the largest graduate recruiter in the UK. He built a business in Japan without speaking Japanese; he created HBOS business banking; was a partner at Accenture and started his career at P&G. Jo also has spent eight years working with tribes across the world to discover how they survive and succeed, and what businesses can learn from them.