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The Chameleon Manager

by Brian Clegg, Clegg
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Synopsis

Today's managers are faced with many conflicting demands and situations. This book provides practical ways of achieving the impossible:

*How can you be a generalist and a specialist?
*An individual expert and a 'connected' team player?
*Manage more people with less time and fewer resources and be entrepreneurial at the same time?

Complete with its own website, which gives further information and links to other sites.

The New Skills Portfolio is a groundbreaking new series, published in association with the Industrial Society, which re-defines the core management skills managers and team leaders need to be competitive. Each title is action-focused blending 20th century management initiatives/trends with a new flexible skills portfolio.

The Industrial Society is one of the largest public training providers in the UK. It has over 10,000 member organisations and promotes best practice through its publishing, consultancy, training and advisory services. For more information contact their website on www.indsoc.co.uk

Outlines the range of new skills needed by managers in changing organizations Complete with its own website, which gives further information and links to other sites.
Published in association with the Industrial Society

Booknews

Proceeding from career goals, this guide provides advice and strategies for finding one's way in a managerial world consisting of globalization of communication and rapid organizational change. Most examples are drawn from the field of information technology in order to demonstrate business and its most chameleon-like. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

About the Author, Brian Clegg

After 17 years in the corporate world, specialising in finding innovative ways of using computers and information to benefit business, Brian Clegg established himself as a freelance writer and consultant on both creativity and human/computer interface. He has provided consultancy to large and small companies in the financial, travel, pharmaceutical and IT sectors, and is a regular contributor to PC Week, Personal Computer World and the World Wide Web based magazine, VNU/Net. Co-author, with Paul Birch, of Business Creativity, (1995), Imagination Engineering (1996) and Dis-Organization (1998). Author of The Chameleon Manager (1998) for the Butterworth Heinemann New Skills Portfolio.

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Book Details

Published
September 1, 1998
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780750640268

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