The John Adair Handbook of Management and Leadership - Adair, John / Thomas, Neil
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What is this book about? This book is a practical master-class in how to manage both yourself and others to provide a team that is motivated, creative and high-performing. Internationally recognised as a writer, teacher and consultant, Professor John Adair has written 27 books and numerous articles on leadership and management development: this is the distillation of a career's thought and practice into one book.
The book is divided into two main sections: Part 1: Self-management Part 2: Managing others Self Management - Time management - Setting and achieving goals and objectives -…mehr

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What is this book about? This book is a practical master-class in how to manage both yourself and others to provide a team that is motivated, creative and high-performing. Internationally recognised as a writer, teacher and consultant, Professor John Adair has written 27 books and numerous articles on leadership and management development: this is the distillation of a career's thought and practice into one book.

The book is divided into two main sections: Part 1: Self-management Part 2: Managing others Self Management - Time management - Setting and achieving goals and objectives - Decision making and problem solving - Creativity and innovation - Personal reminders and thoughts worth thinking Managing Others - Leadership and team building - Motivation and people management - Communication and presentation - Personal reminders and thoughts worth thinking '[John Adair] is without doubt one of the foremost thinkers on the subject in the world' Sir John Harvey-Jones

This book has been edited by Neil Thomas, former Chairman of Hawksmere Group Limited, seminar and training specialists.
Autorenporträt
John Adair has had a varied and colourful career. He served in the Arab Legion as adjutant of a Bedouin regiment. After Cambridge he became Senior Lecturer in Military Histor and Adviser in Leadership Training at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. In the early '70s he was Visting Fellow, Oxford Centre for Management Studies, and in 1979 became Professor in Leadership Studies at the University of Surrey. He is currently Visiting Professor in Leadership Studies at the University of Exeter. He has worked as a consultant to a wide range of organisations in the UK and overseas, inluding Shell, Exxon Chemicals, Mercedes-Benz and Unilever. Working over a period of almost a decade with ICI, he helped them develop the 'manager-leader' concept, which helped ICI to become the first British company to make one billion pounds profit in 1986. He has conducted seminars in 25 difference countries. You can visit his site at http://www.johnadair.co.uk