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In this lively and entertaining book, Robin Wensley guides the reader through the basic analytical approaches to decision making required for more effective management practice.
Packed with diagrams, anecdotes and examples which bring the book to life, Effective Management in Practice: clearly presents a wide range of management tools, techniques and theoretical insights in just the right amount of depth for current and future managers; illustrates the need for a balanced approach, emphasizing the importance of the questioning process in clarifying the nature of action proposals and any underlying assumptions; eschews any approach which advocates one right way but at the same time encourages a greater appreciation of practical issues through analysis and theory
Students of management, academics and any practitioner interested in exploring a range of different approaches to management will enjoy and treasure this book.
Introduction
Introduction
There is something odd with the word “management”. It may have something to do with its rather prosaic etymology but somehow or other it seems to encompass two very different world-views. At one extreme we have the “leadership” (some might say heroic leadership) school of management with its emphasis on visionary approaches, stretch targets and winning against the odds, which rather discounts most of the historical evidence since even the SAS does not have a comprehensive record of “wins” (for instance, see Newsinger 1997). On the other hand, we have that expression beloved at least by those English who delight in understatement, “just managing,” with its connotations of just about keeping one's head (above water?): sufficers more than heroes. This book is dedicated more ...
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