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Professional success, more often than not, means becoming a manager. Yet nobody prepared you for having to deal with messy tidbits like emotions, conflicts, and personalities all while achieving ever-greater goals and meeting ever-looming deadlines. Not exactly what you had in mind, is it?
Don t panic. Devora Zack has the tools to help you succeed and even thrive as a manager. Drawing on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Zack introduces two primary management styles thinkers and feelers and guides you in developing a management style that fits who you really are.
She takes you through a
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Produktbeschreibung
Professional success, more often than not, means becoming a manager. Yet nobody prepared you for having to deal with messy tidbits like emotions, conflicts, and personalities all while achieving ever-greater goals and meeting ever-looming deadlines. Not exactly what you had in mind, is it?

Don t panic. Devora Zack has the tools to help you succeed and even thrive as a manager. Drawing on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Zack introduces two primary management styles thinkers and feelers and guides you in developing a management style that fits who you really are.

She takes you through a host of potentially difficult situations, showing how this new way of understanding yourself and others makes managing less of a stumble in the dark and more of a walk in the park. Her enlightening examples, helpful exercises, and lifesaving tips make this book the new go-to guide for all those managers looking to love their jobs again.
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Autorenporträt
Devora Zack is CEO of Only Connect Consulting, Inc. a leadership development firm with over 100 clients, including the Smithsonian, Australian Institute of Management, Cornell University, John Deere, US Department of Education, and Mensa.
Rezensionen
This is probably the most fun you will ever have reading a business book. Devora Zack demonstrates how a couple of simple shifts in thinking and technique can completely transform how you manage and, in turn, how you feel about managing. If you think of leadership as a daily grind, you really need to read this delightful book.
Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One Minute Manager® and Great Leaders Grow

In her one-of-a-kind style Devora Zack offers up a wonderfully original look at what it takes to manage others when it s not necessarily one's lifelong ambition. Her irreverent humor and splashes of witty commentary ensure you actually remember the very serious, insightful advice you ve read.
Jim Kouzes, coauthor of The Leadership Challenge

There are plenty of management books out there, yet none as smart, funny, and effective as this one.
Michael Depatie, CEO, Kimpton Hotels and Restaurants

This witty, immediately applicable, and action-oriented guide teaches that managing can be fun, meaningful, easier, and more peaceful.
David Bach, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Automatic Millionaire and Start Late, Finish Rich

Don t let the laughter fool you. In here there is very serious and insightful guidance on how you can get out of others (and your own) way so everyone can excel. There are plenty of useful examples and practical tips to please even the most obsessive-compulsive types.
Jim Kouzes, coauthor of the bestseller The Leadership Challenge

Why do so many managers hate managing? Devora Zack tackles that question head-on in a book that should be on every manager s reading list. Zack identifies skills and techniques that will help you manage authentically and effectively.
Tony Bingham, President and CEO, American Society for Training and Development

Like the author, this book has bounce and sass, plus great ideas and examples. If you want to retain your talented employees, read this book cover to cover!
Beverly Kaye, coauthor of Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go

Zack s sparkling personality bursts from the pages to guide readers in a delightful and entertaining way.
Amy Lemon, Volunteer Management, Smithsonian

Zack s insight and her engaging writing style make this book easy to read and fun to apply in your business and personal life.
Hector Vargas, Managing Director, Training Solutions, Mexico and Central America

Management is as much an art as it is a science. Zack provides insights on the importance of both and practical advice on how to improve performance.
Jerome E. Hass, Professor Emeritus of Finance and Business Strategy, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University

This book is a life-saver for any managers who woke up one day to discover they re suddenly in charge.
Rachel Lam, Senior Vice President and Group Managing Director, Time Warner Investments

My manager was so inept, his boss sent him to a Myers-Briggs class, and another participant told him he was a first-class J-E-R-K! If he d read this book, he would have learned why he was ineffective and how to successfully capitalize on his gifts! Delightful and insightful!
Chip R. Bell, coauthor of Wired and Dangerous

Leaders and managers often have to deal with the elephant in the room or worse, being the elephant in the room. This book shows how to do it properly.
Jeff Weirens, Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP

Zack s entertaining and accessible guide to building management skills is essential for new managers and pretty damn useful for old ones as well.
Patrick L. Phillips, CEO, Urban Land Institute

Management is a profession that leaves really smart people scratching their heads and hoping for a miracle. At last that miracle is here.
Vivienne Anthon, FAIM, CEO, Australian Institute of Management, Queensland, Australia

I laughed, I sighed, I went right out and bought three more copies of this light-hearted, yet heavy on wisdom book for my favorite managers.
Elaine Biech, author of Training for Dummies and The Business of Consulting

Read this book! You ll thank me later.
Jules Polonetsky, former Senior Vice President, AOL

I couldn t put this book down! Zack boils down the wisdom of dozens of management tomes, teaching how to match your personality and management style. As entertaining as it is effective!
Howard Wiener, Principal, KPMG

Like a stress-relieving lunch with your best friend at an outdoor café, Devora demonstrates she feels your pain, gives you hope, and shares secrets to get real results
Grant D. Marques, Vice President, Global Business Services, CSC

For managers seeking an effective, personalized style of leadership, Zack s book is a perfect guide.
Dr. Hubert Lobnig, faculty, University of Klagenfurt, Austria

Learn to effectively manage your team and miraculously have fun doing it.
Jeff Cooke, Manager, John Deere

Zack s tested methods and tailored advice enable all personality types to hone their management styles and find the recipe for success.
Barbara Rosenbaum, Vice President, Capgemini Government Solutions

Bravo! This book provides you with all the tools, strategies, and tricks nobody ever told you you d need in management.
Meredith Pierce Hunter, Director, Alumni Relations, London Business School
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