Managing in the Gray
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Managing in the Gray

Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Managing in the Gray

Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work

About this book

How to Resolve the Really Hard Problems Every manager makes tough calls—it comes with the job. And the hardest decisions are the "gray areas”—situations where you and your team have worked hard to find an answer, you’ve done the best analysis you can, and you still don’t know what to do. But you have to make a decision. You have to choose, commit, act, and live with the consequences and persuade others to follow your lead. Gray areas test your skills as a manager, your judgment, and even your humanity. How do you get these decisions right?In Managing in the Gray, Joseph Badaracco offers a powerful, practical, and even radical way to resolve these problems. Picking up where conventional tools of analysis leave off, this book provides tools for judgment in the form of five revealing questions. Asking yourself these five questions provides a simple yet profound way to broaden your thinking, sharpen your judgment, and develop a fresh perspective. What makes these questions so valuable is that they have truly stood the test of time—they’ve guided countless men and women, across many centuries and cultures, to resolve the hardest questions of work, responsibility, and life.You can use the five-question framework on your own or with others on your team to help you cut through complexities, understand critical trade-offs, and develop workable solutions for even the grayest issues.

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Information

Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781633691742
eBook ISBN
9781633691759
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Business Ethics
Index
Business
1
1
Tools 
for 
Judgment
Gray 
areas 
are 
the 
hardest 
problems 
managers 
face 
at 
work. 
The 
reason, 
fundamentally, 
is 
that 
these 
are 
the 
hardest 
prob-
lems 
we 
face 
in 
life. 
When 
you 
have 
to 
deal 
with 
a 
highly 
uncertain, 
high-stakes 
problem, 
you 
face 
a 
challenge, 
not 
just 
to 
your 
skills, 
but 
to 
your 
humanity.
This 
book 
offers 
a 
powerful, 
practical 
way 
to 
resolve 
gray 
area 
problems. 
It 
is 
based 
on 
guidance 
that 
is 
unusual, 
even 
radical. 
The 
guidance 
doesn’t 
come 
from 
successful 
or 
famous 
CEOs. 
It 
isn’t 
found 
in 
the 
conventional 
wisdom 
that 
says 
serve 
the 
interests 
of 
the 
shareholders 
or 
all 
the 
stakeholders. 
Nor 
does 
it 
appear 
in 
the 
ever-lengthening 
mission 
statements 
of 
today’s 
organizations. 
The 
soundest 
guidance, 
I 
believe, 
for 
grappling 
with 
hard, 
complex, 
uncertain 
practical 
problems 

Table of contents

  1. Copyright
  2. Contents
  3. Ch 1: Tools for Judgment
  4. Ch 2: What Are the Net, Net Consequences?
  5. Ch 3: What Are My Core Obligations?
  6. Ch 4: What Will Work in the World As It Is?
  7. Ch 5: Who Are We?
  8. Ch 6: What Can I Live With?
  9. Appendix A: Humanism
  10. Appendix B: Human Nature, Evolution, and Ethics
  11. Notes
  12. Index
  13. Acknowledgments
  14. About the Author