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Category Archives: Management Development

Book Review: The Definitive Drucker

Friday, March 14, 2008

The late Peter Drucker will likely be remembered as the most influential management thinker of the last 100 years - perhaps of all time. He was at once profound and prolific, writing widely on management and other topics. Certainly much has been written about him, as well. But the author of this book, Elizabeth Haas Edersheim, wrote it at the specific request of Drucker, and with the help of his close collaboration over the last sixteen months of his life. . .

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Learning to walk the walk

Thursday, March 13, 2008

In the past two days we have reviewed the basic elements of a self-development program for managers. But those are essentially passive efforts to attain knowledge and insight. These don’t become experience, judgment, and skills until you reflect on and practice them. Today, we will complete this adaptation with some ideas about how you can convert theory into effective, alert, consciously-guided practice . . .

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Learning to talk the talk

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Today we are going to briefly review three of the five key things you can do to further your development as a manager, wherever in your career you may currently be. These are the more or less passive activities on the list - but they are nevertheless essential. In order to activate them, you must remember to engage in them reflectively. Here they are . . .

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Self development

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Many people think that management development is something that happens to them. But successful managers don’t just go in one end of a training pipeline and come out the other as a manager. Over the next few days we will take a quick look at five of the main avenues available to you to help generate ideas, experience, and - most important of all - personal insight on the basis of which you will be able to improve your management skills. . .

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The project manager

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

The project management mindset is an excellent tool to employ for almost any manager at any level engaged in any activity. With particular respect to our current discussion, it has the following three key beneficial features . . .

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