Tough-minded Leadership offers new insights, focus, and motivation for anyone committed to greater personal effectiveness as a leader. At a time when self-confidence and self-esteem are desperately lacking, it provides specific techniques and tools to help restore them. Joe Batten helps you make the transition to tough-minded leader by explaining the thirty-five essential conversions you must make in your attitudes and the fifteen challenges you must learn to confront.
Sound advice that can be adapted by managers at all levels." 'B/M Book Review' The excellence of the book lies in the basic information it has to give the relatively new manager." 'Personnel Psychology' Must reading for anyone who thinks all management books are just a rehash of planing, organizing, staffing, controlling, etc.... Especially recommended...." 'NRHA Magazine' A totally fresh description of how to turn MBO into a 'living system'...practical and highly motivational. 'Buffalo Law Journal' Many useful suggestions to offer the executive." 'West Coast Review of Books'
In this book (originally published in 1963) author J. D. Batten, at the time himself the Chairman of the Board of a management consulting and human resources firm in Iowa, imparts sound advice and tips to aid managers and management in their important task of improving their effectiveness at all levels. “The excellence of the book lies in the basic information it has to give to the relatively new manager.”—Personnel Psychology “Must reading for anyone who thinks all management books are just a rehash of planning, organizing, staffing, controlling, etc....Especially recommended...”—NRHA Magazine “A totally fresh description of how to turn MBO into a ‘living system’....practical and highly motivational.”—Buffalo Law Journal “Many useful suggestions to offer the executive.”—West Coast Review of Books
Based on more than two years of surveys of more than 2,000 senior executives and managers, Tough Management may be one of the most important and practical business books of our time. Bestselling author, weekly columnist, and sought-after speaker Chuck Martin has tapped into his research firm's vast network of business connections to discover that 80 percent of executives and managers are experiencing increased levels of work stress. On the bright side, Martin has found that tough times have brought out the best in the world's most successful leaders and managers. And now, in his groundbreaking new book, he offers a refreshing bottom-line approach to what really matters in today's difficult market--and what really works in today's demanding workplace. The seven skills every manager should know: 1.Focus on Results 2.Force the Hard Decisions 3.Communicate Clearly 4.Remain Flexible 5.Prove Your Value to the Company 6.Force Collaboration 7.Don't Be a Tough Guy Using these practical, powerful, and proven techniques, Martin reveals how other business leaders have met the demand to do more, deliver more, and increase more--without raising stress levels. By focusing on actual results and forcing the hard decisions, you can learn to communicate and collaborate while remaining flexible. It's one of the few business books available that provide real solutions to real challenges. Because when the going gets tough, smart managers get Tough Management--and get real results.
A management classic indeed, reissued and updated because it is simply the best concise guide to what happens when an organization installs and commits itself to a management-by-objectives system. Written by one of the best-selling management experts (J. D. Batten's 'Tough-Minded Management' has sold over 100,000 copies, and his various other titles have also reached very wide audiences) this book presents practical advice, techniques, guidelines, checklists, and action plans to help managers learn the art of motivation. Today's manager is a leader who recognizes that pushing and repressing employees are counterproductive to achieving an organization's goals. What is needed is a positive climate in which MBO can operate successfully. The personal involvement of each employee is essential to the all-out effort of the company, and it is this personal commitment to meet challenges that brings the organization's goals to life. Mr. Batten shows how MBO can be used to bring about a climate of productiveness and profitability. He lays out a seven-phase process that includes practical, results-oriented advice designed to make any MBO program a success.
OVER 40,000 COPIES SOLD “An exhilarating but highly structured approach to the creative use of time. Kadavy’s approach is likely to spark a new evaluation of conventional time management. ” —Kirkus Reviews You have the TIME. Do you have the ENERGY? You’ve done everything you can to save time. Every productivity tip, every “life hack,” every time management technique. But the more time you save, the less time you have. The more overwhelmed, stressed, exhausted you feel. “Time management” is squeezing blood from a stone. Introducing a new approach to productivity. Instead of struggling to get more out of your time, start effortlessly getting more out of your mind. In Mind Management, Not Time Management, best-selling author David Kadavy shares the fruits of his decade-long deep dive into how to truly be productive in a constantly changing world. Quit your daily routine. Use the hidden patterns all around you as launchpads to skyrocket your productivity. Do in only five minutes what used to take all day. Let your “passive genius” do your best thinking when you’re not even thinking. “Writer’s block” is a myth. Learn a timeless lesson from the 19th century’s most underrated scientist. Wield all of the power of technology, with none of the distractions. An obscure but inexpensive gadget may be the shortcut to your superpowers. Keep going, even when chaos strikes. Tap into the unexpected to find your next Big Idea. Mind Management, Not Time Management isn’t your typical productivity book. It’s a gripping page-turner chronicling Kadavy’s global search for the keys to unlock the future of productivity. You’ll learn faster, make better decisions, and turn your best ideas into reality. Buy it today.
Want Success? Discard Hardheadness for Tough Mindedness. No one knows better than Rand Golletz what it takes to transform hard-headed executives into tough-minded leaders. As a coach, he gets executives to: unlock the secrets of personal accountability, think critically in making decisions every day, and develop and sustain profitable business relationships. As an author, he distills the wisdom gleaned from his successful career as an executive, consultant, and coach into tough-minded lessons that stick.Here’s how to gain this wisdom for yourself. Place Consensus is Not Kumbaya on your night table, then read one brief chapter each night before lights-out. From that one digestible lesson, take one relevant action the next day. Do this consistently and things will shift. Guaranteed.
Veterans of downsizing and corporate turnarounds will be fascinated by the management style and philosophy of the chairman and CEO of mammoth Nestle Corporation. In matters of leadership on the global frontier, Helmut Maucher knows more than almost anyone. Readers everywhere will devour his inside look at Nestle's $38 billion operations, and the secrets of its success. German language edition has already sold more than 10,000 copies.
Readers of Alan Blinder's regular Business Week column appreciate his concise, thought-provoking opinions and his eloquent prose. In Hard Heads, Soft Hearts he brings to life the inner workings of America's economy and in so doing explains what's wrong and how to fix it.
By accepting the CEO job at Hewlett-Packard, an iconic company that had lost its way, Carly Fiorina confirmed her status as the most powerful businesswoman in America. But she also made herself a target for everyone who disliked her bold leadership style and resented her rapid rise. For six years, as she led HP through drastic changes and a controversial merger, Fiorina was the subject of endless analysis, debate and speculation. Yet in all that time, the public never really got to know the person behind the persona. Tough Choices finally reveals the real Carly Fiorina, who writes with brutal honesty about her triumphs and failures, her deepest fears and most painful confrontations – including her sudden and very public firing by HP's board of directors. Tough Choices shows what it's really like to lead a major corporation in a time of great change while trying to stay true to your values. It's one woman's inspiring story, along with her unique perspective on leadership, technology, globalisation, sexism and many other issues. "Superb... certain to be a hit. Ms Fiorina is at her best when recounting the travails of a woman in a male-dominated culture. She is also good in her psychological descriptions of the constant betrayals that occur in corporate bureaucracies. The woman that emerges from these pages is cultured, sensitive and vulnerable, even as she acts tough." —The Economist
