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by Julian Birkinshaw
Becoming A Better Boss: Why Good Management is So Difficult
Cover
Praise for Becoming a Better Boss
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
Online Self-Assessment
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Building A Better Business
The Way Forward
Who Is the Book for?
1: Why Management Matters
Drivers of Corporate Performance
Quality of Life Considerations
The Rhetoric–Reality Gap
Explaining The Puzzle
Why Companies Struggle to Change
Why Individual Managers Struggle to Change
2: So What Is Good Management Really?
Management and Leadership
Bosses We Love to Hate
What Makes a Good Manager? Insights from the Survey
Another Perspective: Insights from Seminar Discussions
The Rhetoric and The Reality
3: Getting inside the Minds of Your Employees: What Makes them Tick?
Getting inside the Mind of The Employee
Identity
Motivations
Fears
Strengths
So What does an Employee's Eye-View Tell us?
4: Seeing The World Through The Eyes of Your Employees
Putting Yourself in Their Shoes
Lessons from Marketing
Cut Through the Hierarchy to Build Employee Insight
Individualizing the Employee Proposition
Managing the Employee Experience
Turning Employees Into Advocates
Thinking Like a Marketer
5: Doing What We Know We Should: Managing As an Unnatural Act
Doing What We Know We Should
Why Do We Behave the Way We Do?
Letting Go: Why is it Difficult?
Letting Go: Some Advice On Doing it Better
Giving Credit to Others: Why Is It So Difficult?
Giving Credit to Others: Some Advice On Doing It Better
Self-Control: Why Is It So Difficult?
Self-Control: Some Advice On Doing It Better
Overcoming Our Natural Instincts
6: Experimentation: Functioning in a Broken System
Understanding Bureaucracy – and Rising Above It
Take Personal Initiative – To Overcome Political Game-Playing
Challenge The Rules – To Overcome Inert Procedures
Making Your Experiments Stick
Making The Best of an Imperfect World
7: The Future of Management?
Forces that Shape Our Choice of Management Model
Technological Change: Web 2.0
Social Changes: Generation Y and Transparency
Economic and Political Changes: The Shift from West to East
Conclusion: Making the Right Choices
Index
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