Pearson Education The Rules Of Management

• Described as a definitive code for managerial success, this book provides 100 rules  – a blend of serious advice tinged with a fair dollop of cynicism. It is divided into managing your team and managing yourself.
• Managing your team points include:

~ Get them emotionally involved (many manage aloofly)

~ Set realistic targets (how often does this happen?)

~ Hold effective meetings (when were you last in one of these?)

~ Offload as much as you can – or dare (the art of delegation)

~ Be ready to prune (this is the tough bit)

~ Take the rap (even tougher)

~ Be ready to say yes (other think saying no is equally important)

• Managing yourself points include:

~ Have a game plan, but keep it secret (a bit odd this – most would publicise it)

~ Be consistent (how many managers change their mind all the time?)

~ Get rid of superfluous rules (slightly ironic in a book that offers 100 of them)

~ Learn from your mistakes (as opposed to repeating the same ineffective stuff)

~ Manage your health (do you have a stressed out manager?)

~ Don’t stagnate (hanging frantically onto a job is bad for all)

• You can immediately see the potential conflict between being a wonderful person and being an effective manager. Arguably, no book has ever resolved this.
• Managing effectively involves three choices: put up with it, change it or end it.