Relatable Management Tips

Dave A. P. Smith

• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9781035800872
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Management
• Index: Business

This book contains simple business management principles that the author wishes they had been told when they were embarking on their management career. These simple business management tips, idioms and sayings: could revolutionise and standardise corporate language; consolidate decades of management experienceand leadership courses, to assist busy new managers; and will continue to be applicable to various situations in business and organizations, well into the future. The highly experienced, recognizedand qualified author seeks to: save new managers from embarrassment and frustration; assist managers to be more productive; and equip managers with common sense, practical, business management principles, to guide their decision making and actions on a daily basis.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• About the Author
• Dedication
• Copyright Information ©
• Acknowledgement
• Introduction
• Know Where You Sit
• Follow the Process
• Get Your Powder Dry
• Consult the SME
• Don’t Take the Monkey
• Don’t Burn Your Bridges
• Respect the Umpire
• Play the Ball, Not the Player
• You Are Unlikely to Be in the Huddle
• Swim Like a Duck
• Ask Questions
• Put Yourself in Others’ Shoes
• The News Test
• People May Forget What You Said
• Don’t Just Do It (Tell People About It Too!)
• The Torch Test
• Compare Apples with Apples
• Swings and Roundabouts
• You Can’t Do It All Yourself
• Trust, but Validate
• Book in the Look
• Structure Your Structures
• Keep Staff Work Focused
• Tackle Tight Timeframes
• Don’t Pass the Buck
• Don’t Wait to Be Spoon-Fed
• Make a Glass
• All Care and No Responsibility
• Problem Shared = Problem Halved
• Do Not Reply (Yet!)
• Traction on Actions
• Look People in the Eye
• Meetings for Meetings’ Sake?
• Pick Your Battles
• Is It Really a Social Function?
• Be Aware of Behaviours
• Walk the Floor
• Forgiveness or Permission? (Opt Out or Opt In)
• Ready, Fire! Aim?
• The Purse Strings
• Use the Red Tape
• Fix It Now and in the Future
• Email Bail (Liberation)
• Avoid “Scope Creep”
• Induction Instruction
• Vile Files
• File Piles
• Difficult Conversations
• Individual Meetings
• Be There
• How Do You Eat an Elephant?
• Create the Focus
• Cause and Effect
• There’s More Than One Way to Skin a Cat
• Close the Window First
• The K.I.S. Principle
• Centralise/Decentralise
• What’s Your Legacy?
• The Egg in the Fry Pan
• You Catch More Flies with Honey
• Win-Win
• Gender Equity
• The Old and the New
• The Full Cup
• From Generosity to Expectation
• Resources Should Follow the Work
• Put a Bow on It
• Mirror, Mirror
• Be a Media Star
• Don’t Create a Rod for Your Own Back
• No Marching Band
• In Conclusion