ISBN: 9788184001372    Publisher: Random House India Year of publishing: 2010     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 328        Language: English

Managers Who Make A Difference: Sharpening Your Management Skills is written by a professor from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. This is a general guide book for aspiring managers and team leaders. The book is full of practical insights of the corporate and business world and how one can mould themselves into a successful manager. with years of teaching business school students from diverse backgrounds and with practical exposure to the corporate and business world, the author has beautifully brought out the finer aspects of being a good manager. The book has nine chapters in which the different attributes of a successful manager are explained with illustrative details. The chapters include topics on Versatility, Efficacy, Internality, Values, Creativity, Interpersonal Engagement, Team Building, Time and Talent Management, Communication, Motivation and Leadership Styles. These topics deal in the qualities required in a good leader, how to develop them, how to use them and how to create leaders from the subordinates. It deals with the development of cohesive skills of management to a demonstration of such skills. It also talks about the overall development of a good manager, in executing his role as a management representative of the business. Building the culture, the team and adhering to the values and visions of the company, are qualities that have been explained in the book with examples. The book Managers Who Make A Difference: Sharpening Your Management Skills was published by RHI in 2010. It is available in paperback. Key Features: The book has illustrative examples of the topics it covers. It explains the various do's and don'ts of a successful team leader.
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Professor Dr. T.V. Rao is from Andhra Pradesh. He is nicknamed as the Father of Indian HRD, as he has headed the movement for the new system in Human Resource Development in India with Dr. Udai Pareek in 1974. He founded the National HRD Network and the Indian Society for Applied Behavioral Sciences. For 20 years he taught in IIM, Ahmedabad and then as L&T Professor of HRD at XLRI, Jamshedpur. at present he is the Chairman of TVRLS, Ahmedabad. He is empanelled with many corporate companies and has written 57 books related to HRD.
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