Management Essentials

by Stephen R. Covey

This book is a highly condensed guide to the essentials of effective management. Here, you’ll learn the essential actions, attitudes, and skills that great managers routinely put into practice. You’ll find answers to 25 of the most difficult management challenges faced in the workplace every day. And you’ll find classic readings, quotations, and wisdom from some of the most knowledgeable experts on management and leadership throughout history.Included in this book is an in-depth workbook designed to help you identify specific opportunities for improvement in your leadership technique—and implement the essentials you learn here in real, practical terms that will generate concrete results in your management career.ABOUT THE AUTHOR Dr. Stephen R. Covey (1932-2012) was a leading authority on leadership and family relations. He held a Bachelor of Science from the University of Utah, an MBA from Harvard, and a PhD from Brigham Young University. Dr. Covey was Vice Chairman of FranklinCovey Co., and in high demand as a speaker, teacher, and organizational consultant. Throughout his career, Dr. Covey brought new insight and understanding to millions of readers and students.ABOUT THE SERIESThe Essentials series offers the best of Dr. Stephen R. Covey’s wisdom and expertise, gained throughout a decades-long career guiding corporations and leaders on management, execution, and leadership. Each Essentials book is tailored specifically toward an aspect of corporate leadership that offers unique challenges to organizations and individuals alike—offering concrete step-by-step advice toward improvement—and extensive workbooks designed to help you put new ideas into practice.

215 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 4, 2021

About the author

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Stephen Richards Covey was an American educator, author, businessman, and speaker. His most popular book is The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. His other books include First Things First, Principle-Centered Leadership, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families, The 8th Habit, and The Leader In Me: How Schools and Parents Around the World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child at a Time. In 1996, Time magazine named him one of the 25 most influential people. He was a professor at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University (USU) at the time of his death.

Reviews

[Çiğdem Engür · Rating 5 out of 5]

Baya sevdim ben, kısa özet çoğu bilindik, ara ara bakılmalık kitap

[M. Serdar Karaman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bir oturuşta okunabilecek özet bir kitap.

[Javier · Rating 4 out of 5]

Covey always delivers.