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Review

Mastering Management fills a long existing need in the business world. The majority of books on management are voluminous texts written by professors for college students and other professors. Mastering Management is different! In plain English it makes clear to anyone capable of understanding the daily newspaper the basics of business management. Managing is making good use of what you have to become what you want to be and get what you want to have as the head of any organization.

Mastering Management takes the mystery out of successful business operation. In an informal style it leads the reader through its 21 chapters, with its preface and comprehensive index. It starts with the milk and ends with the meat of management. It is short on behavioral theories and long on interesting, plain, sound, and practical instruction.

Its three main parts tell you
(1) How to line up your managerial resources,
(2) How to construct your own personal business manual--a guidebook for successfully managing your very own business, and
(3) How to move ahead to reach or exceed your goals.

Most management books tell what to do but are lacking in how. Mastering Management shows how you do it, step by step. It contains many plain and useful definitions. It provides management strength-building exercises, starting with the easiest and simplest and progressing toward building and growing managerial strength. I cautions the developing manager against lifting heavy managerial burdens until he is ready for them. It gives the reader a track to run on as he advances steadily forward. It provides practical ways to to measure his own progress and effectiveness, and ways in which to feel satisfied and proud of his progress. It is usually brief and to the point, and it convincingly claims that to read the book conscientiously and apply its teachings will be worth more than $20,000 to the reader.

Mastering Management contains dozens of useful examples, forms, and formats which businesses can readily use or adapt for their own organizations.

If you want to become a more effective and successful manager, there is no more reliable, simple and pleasant way than to follow the path that is clearly defined in Mastering Management.

Table of Contents

Forward: You Can Become A Successful Manager By Reading This Book, 15

1. Sure You Know Your Business, But Does That Make You A Successful Manager?, 18

2. Projecting Your Business Image, 31

3. Defining Objectives, Problems, and Solutions, 38

4. Your Management Planning Workbook--What to Put In It and How to Assemble It, 45

5. The Mind Set of the Successful Manager--Essential Mental Attitudes, 65

6. Time x Focus = Health + Wealth + Happiness, 82

7. How to Create A Workable Business Management Plan--With The Enthusiastic Help of Your Associates, 98

8. How to Inspect and Analyze Your Business Management, 111

9. The Management Review Questionnaire--Pinpointing Weaknesses, 120

10. The Management Survey and the Management Effectiveness Profile, 132

11. How to Think Like A Manager, 148

12. How To Write Like A Manager, 167

13. General Outline of Your Written Plan For Managing Your Business, 196

14. Your Vision of the Business--As It is Now and As You Intend It to Be, 204

15. Your Program For Turning Your Goals Into Reality, 212

16. Your System For Keeping The Business on Course, 235

17. Your System For Continuous Management Improvement, 247

18. No Need to Wait--Be a Successful Manager Today, 255

19. How To Read Like A Manager, 261

20. The Best Laid Schemes O'Mice An' Men--Protecting Your Resources, 277

21. How to Get More Than $20,000 Worth of Management Improvement Out of This Book, 282

Examples, Forms, and Formats

2. Illustrations of Business Descriptions, 35

3. Format: Problems and Solutions, 44

4. Example: Marketing Projections, 53

5. Definitions: A Concept of Managing for Managers at any Level, 71

6. Checklist: Time Management, 91

8. Questions Pertaining to Management Improvement Program, 116

9. Questionnaire: Management Review and Report, 123

10. Form: Management Effectiveness Profile, 145

11. Form: Just for Fun Thinking Checkup and Mental Exercise Record, 165

12. Position Descriptions, 177

13. Example: Table of Contents for Management Planning Workbook, 199

14. Format: Forecast of Business Income and Expense, 209

15. Supervisor's Checklist for Inducting New Worker, 221

16. Example: Management Report Calendar, 240

17. Form: Management Improvement Project Outline, 248

20. Form: Business Resource Protection Checklist, 280

21. Form: Mastering Management, Progress Schedule and Record, 284

Index, 289

Order Information

Title:

Mastering Management--Practical Procedures for Effective Business Control

Author:

A. Leslie Derbyshire

Retail Price:

$ 19.98

Available:

Now

ISBN:

0-88290-159-1

Order Number (SKU):

2046

Pages:

296

Size:

6" x 9"

Binding:

Hardbound with Jacket