Every manager wants to be brilliant - to be the best they can be, to be successful and respected, and to do the right thing in the right situation to get the desired result.
Now in its second edition, Brilliant Manager is designed to give you a head start over those learning just from experience. It contains an invaluable mixture of generally agreed best practice and the experience of others to provide tools, tactics and techniques for every situation.
Its been fully revised and expanded, with great new sections on top business tips, salaries, how to handle harassment, finance, differences between project and team management.
You’ll wonder how you ever managed without it.
DON'T BE GOOD, BE BRILLIANT.
Dr Nic Peeling is a research scientist at DERA - The Defence, Evaluation, and Research Agency. It was when he was promoted to be manager of research scientists, leading a team of fifteen people, that he went to look for a book to tell him what he really needed to know about management. He couldn't find anything that revealed what brilliant managers know, do and say, so he set out to research and write one. Here it is.