Manager to CEO: Corporate Wisdom for Survival and SuccessSAGE, 2005 - 274 pages Manager to CEO is the intelligent manager`s guide to understanding and surviving in the `real` corporate environment. Designed to give professionals a comprehensive overview of the 21st century workplace, this book covers a wide range of issues that senior managers face in organizations as they go up the corporate ladder. Insightful, practical, yet thoughtful, this book provides a new perspective on progress, competition, change and many other work-life issues in a rapidly changing corporate environment. It gives unbiased and realistic recommendations, and sometimes a new slant, on issues such as power and politics, the dilemmas of a CEO, managing teams, hiring and retaining good people, creating and managing change, dealing with colleagues, bosses and subordinates, career advancement, and ethics, values and failure. Replete with real life stories, this book is a must read for senior managers, CEOs and anyone who wishes to understand the true nature of the corporate world. |
Contents
Preface | 9 |
The Art of SelfManagement | 23 |
Managing People | 67 |
Lowering the Drawbridge | 84 |
The Challenge of Change | 93 |
Subordinates and Bosses | 107 |
Down and | 116 |
You Win Some You Lose Some | 128 |
Staying | 156 |
Ethics and Human Values | 171 |
Taking People at Face Value | 193 |
Discretion and Tact | 202 |
Courtesy and Grace | 222 |
Cooperation and Networking | 235 |
The | 242 |
Towards a Second Career | 256 |
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