What If You Tried This At Work: A Field Guide of Possibilities for Becoming an Invaluable Manager

In today's workplace, managers' time is tight, and transactional imperatives abound. A relational mindset seems impossible. Enter What If You Tried This at Work?, which presents a new kind of "how" for managers seeking to expand and enhance their interpersonal management capabilities.

Professor Mark Haskins provides thirty-six short, compelling stories and sound wisdom based on forty years of experience to help managers imagine and pursue a personal blueprint for flexibility, personalization, and exploration. Each vignette focuses on a relational management concept followed by a series of questions to prompt and guide personalized focus for action based on the reader's different priorities, interests, and schedules.

Relational management becomes a habit when managers are encouraged to be open to the possibilities resident in asking the question "What if I tried this at work?" And so, the transformation begins.

Mark Haskins is the Landmark Communications Professor Emeritus of Business Administration at the University of Virginia's internationally ranked Darden Graduate School of Business. He has taught thousands of future managers (MBA students) and practicing managers from around the world. He has authored (or coauthored) numerous articles in such journals as People & Strategy, Strategic HR Review, Journal of Management Development, Organizational Development & Learning, and Strategic Finance. He is the author of The Secret Language of Financial Reports. He is coauthor of Teaching Management: A Field Guide for Professors, Consultants, and Corporate Trainers. Without a doubt, he is most proud of his family-a son, a daughter, and seven granddaughters. He resides in the rolling hills of central Virginia with his wife of many years.