Managing Performing Living
Effective Management for a New Era
Fredmund Malik
Cite this publication as
Fredmund Malik, Managing Performing Living (2006), Campus Frankfurt / New York, 60486 Frankfurt/Main, ISBN: 9783593414805
Descripción
Whatever Fredmund Malik writes, carries weight. This book provides everything you need to know about effective management and day-to-day executive life - in terms that are concrete, practical and productive. The author answers the question of how executives can operate effectively and successfully and accomplish their organizational objectives. Now a classic among economics texts, this book contains the essential know-how for managers in both profit and not-for-profit sectors.
Descripción
Prof. Fredmund Malik numbers among Europe's leading mangement thinkers. He is head of Management Zentrum St. Gallen, management training and consulting firm that maintains offices in St. Gallen, Zurich, London, Vienna, Toronto and Shanghai, and has roughly 220 employees.
Índice
- Titelei
- Contents
- Preface to the English Edition
- Foreword and Introduction
- Part I : Professionalism
- The Ideal Manager – the Wrong Question
- Erroneous Theories and Misconceptions
- Management as a Profession
- Part II: The Principles of Effective Management
- Introduction
- First Principle: Focusing on Results
- Second Principle: Contribution to the Whole
- Third Principle: Concentration on a Few Things
- Fourth Principle: Utilizing Strengths
- Fifth Principle: Trust
- Sixth Principle: Positive Thinking
- Summary: Management Quality
- Part III: Tasks of Effective Management
- Preliminary Remarks
- First Task: Managing Objectives
- Second Task: Organizing
- Third Task: Decision-Making
- Fourth Task: Supervising
- Fifth Task: Developing People
- Synopsis: And what about all the other Tasks …
- Part IV: Tools of Effective Management
- Preliminary Remarks
- First Tool: Meetings
- Second Tool: Reports
- Third Tool: Job Design and Assignment Control
- Fourth Tool: Personal Working Methods
- Fifth Tool: The Budget and Budgeting
- Sixth Tool: Performance Appraisal
- Seventh Tool: Systematic Waste Disposal
- Summary: Touchstone of Professionalism
- Postscript: From an Art to a Profession
- Appendix: Synopsis
- Literature
- Index