DK Essential Managers: Managing Change

DK Essential Managers

by Robert Heller

Ability to change is crucial in today's business environment -- this book shows managers how to implement successful new ideas. Learn all you need to know about adapting to change, from initiating modifications to responding positively to them. Managing Change enables you to understand and plan for change to achieve the best results, plus it provides practical techniques for you to try in different settings. Power tips help you handle real-life situations and develop the first-class management skills that are the key to a productive and informed workplace. The Essential Manager have sold more than 1.9 million copies worldwide! Experienced and novice managers alike can benefit from these compact guides that slip easily into a briefcase or a portfolio. The topics are relevant to every work environment, from large corporations to small businesses. Concise treatments of dozens of business techniques, skills, methods, and problems are presented with hundreds of photos, charts, and diagrams. It is the most exciting and accessible approach to business and self-improvement available.

Genres: Self Help, Business

72 pages, Paperback

First published September 17, 1998

About the author

Robert Heller was a British management journalist, management consultant, author of a series of management books, and the founding editor of Management Today.

Reviews

[Sean · Rating 4 out of 5]

In my younger days, I was very impatient with change. I readily identified with change agents and sought to bring change wherever I went. While change remains important for me, it no longer is something I strive for regardless of the cost. In fact, I would say I handle and manage change so mcub more effectively now than I did when I was younger. I am not sure whether reading Heller's book would have slowed me down in my youth. What it would have more likely done is help me understand tha nature of change and recognising the importance and distinction between planning and implementing change. These days, i am all too aware of the temptation to go backwards once things become difficult. Lots of great tips, wisdom and advice here. My concern is that the people who should be reading this book are to busy with trying to bring about change they have not set aside time for a book like this which would make their job so much easier!

[Tabitha · Rating 1 out of 5]

There were certain things about this that really bothered me. Especially the section where it basically says "the employees aren't going to like change, so try to brainwash them and if you can't you should be prepared to fire them." The whole thing felt very much like it was written by a man that spent his career in management and was never the person on the other end of these so called discussions. When you talk to employees in the way it's suggested, they know you're spouting garbage and take you even less seriously.

[Kacey · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another little book I was given 'in case it might be useful'. Despite some sections being amusingly dated (especially regarding changing technology), and seeming rather keen on change for change's sake, this guide does give useful suggestions. Particularly relevant advice includes how to bring a team around to a positive approach to changes, and how to present imposed changes in a positive way (even when you struggle to see where the benefits outweigh the challenges).

[Doan Hai · Rating 2 out of 5]

Bản dịch tệ!

[Lori Grant · Rating 5 out of 5]

A must-read book on change management for knowledge workers, managers, executives, and entrepreneurs.