Table of Contents

Below we offer a brief description of each management chapter only.

• "Analysis" looks at management from the Sun Tzu’s perspective, laying out the five factors that determine your success.
• "Decision- Making" covers the cost and difficulties in running an organization and the challenges in decision-making.
• "Attacking Problems" discusses the need to unite an organization and to avoid company politics in eliminating problems.
• "Innovation" looks at the decisions you must make in order to stay with the competition and eventually surpass them.
• "Vision" examines how you can use the power of human creativity to ride the tides of change to success.
• "Problems and Opportunities" shows you how to leverage problems to discover the opportunities hidden within them.
• "Competition" explains how management must evaluate themselves against other alternatives in the marketing place.
• "Continuous Improvement" emphasizes flexibility and adapting to shifting situations in order to keep your organization competitive.
• "Making Progress" covers dozens of different management situations and how to respond to them.
• "Best Practices" discusses the different types of processes with an organization and how to evaluate and improve them.
• "The Work Environment" analyzes the nine common workplace environments in the workplace and the keys to managing them.
• "Attacking Cycle Time" discusses the need for speed and the ways that you address speeding processes within the organization.
• "Using Information" focuses on the critical importance of information and the five kinds of information that you need to enable your organization to succeed.

Excerpt

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