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Ichak Kalderon Adizes PH D

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Description:This book was written to help you discover your basic management style and compensate for your weaknesses so you can work better with others – subordinates, peers, and those you report to – whose management styles are different from your own. It does this by providing prescriptions to follow for each management style, notes from the battleground based on my experiences in coaching executives around the world for the past 30 years.The prescriptions are intended to enrich management styles, not to achieve a total personality change in managers.The purpose of coaching is to make managers, whatever their personal style, more flexible so they can work with others whose styles are different. Granted, this represents more of an incremental, continuous improvement than a revolutionary change or paradigm shift. But that’s life. I do not believe people can change their innate character. People do not change, but since they can get worse, they can also get better, and that might be all that’s needed to be able to work with them.My premise, which I fully developed in The Ideal Executive and reiterate in Chapter 1 of this book, is that the ideal leader, manager, or executive does not and cannot exist. All the literature that attempts to teach us to be perfect managers is based on the erroneous assumption that it is possible. No one can excel at all of the roles expected of leaders or managers. A person may excel in one or more roles, but not in all of them under all circumstances.Classic management theorists prescribe nostrums based on the assumption that all managers have the same style and can be trained to manage the same way. But this overlooks the fact that different people organize, plan, and motivate --differently. Simply put, different managers manage differently. What is needed is a complementary team. But how can different management styles complement each other and work together when they are so unlike each other?The first step is to understand that the different styles speak different languages; they infer different meanings from different words and gestures. While conflict between the different styles is unavoidable, learning to speak the language of the people we work with allows us to build and nourish a complementary team and prevent conflict from becoming destructive.Pay attention to how your behavior affects others. If you know your style, you also know that your style of communicating is apt to be problematic for the other styles. If you know how it is problematic, you can compensate. This is the purpose of the book: How to compensate for your style so you can work with others, and how to coach them so they can work with each other.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Leading The Leaders. To get started finding Leading The Leaders, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 304

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Adizes Institute Publications

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ISBN: 0937120057

Description: This book was written to help you discover your basic management style and compensate for your weaknesses so you can work better with others – subordinates, peers, and those you report to – whose management styles are different from your own. It does this by providing prescriptions to follow for each management style, notes from the battleground based on my experiences in coaching executives around the world for the past 30 years.The prescriptions are intended to enrich management styles, not to achieve a total personality change in managers.The purpose of coaching is to make managers, whatever their personal style, more flexible so they can work with others whose styles are different. Granted, this represents more of an incremental, continuous improvement than a revolutionary change or paradigm shift. But that’s life. I do not believe people can change their innate character. People do not change, but since they can get worse, they can also get better, and that might be all that’s needed to be able to work with them.My premise, which I fully developed in The Ideal Executive and reiterate in Chapter 1 of this book, is that the ideal leader, manager, or executive does not and cannot exist. All the literature that attempts to teach us to be perfect managers is based on the erroneous assumption that it is possible. No one can excel at all of the roles expected of leaders or managers. A person may excel in one or more roles, but not in all of them under all circumstances.Classic management theorists prescribe nostrums based on the assumption that all managers have the same style and can be trained to manage the same way. But this overlooks the fact that different people organize, plan, and motivate --differently. Simply put, different managers manage differently. What is needed is a complementary team. But how can different management styles complement each other and work together when they are so unlike each other?The first step is to understand that the different styles speak different languages; they infer different meanings from different words and gestures. While conflict between the different styles is unavoidable, learning to speak the language of the people we work with allows us to build and nourish a complementary team and prevent conflict from becoming destructive.Pay attention to how your behavior affects others. If you know your style, you also know that your style of communicating is apt to be problematic for the other styles. If you know how it is problematic, you can compensate. This is the purpose of the book: How to compensate for your style so you can work with others, and how to coach them so they can work with each other.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Leading The Leaders. To get started finding Leading The Leaders, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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