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Citation
Stewart, D.M. (1998), "Handbook of Management Skills
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
This is one of those ideal bookshelf books that you need when you need them ‐ because a project you’re starting work on needs you to update part of your knowledge or you’d like a quick refresher on some topic. What you want is a quick and practical overview of a topic ‐ to give you the main concepts and point you off to further information. Too often, what you get is an academic treatise: very relevant in some situations, but not much help as a fast source of practical guidance and support. This is certainly a “real world” book ‐ aiming at, and achieving, being highly readable and practical. Chapters are organised into three parts: Managing Yourself, Managing Other People and Managing Business. Part 1 covers personal skills and self‐development; Part 2 deals with people skills such as listening (hurrah! ‐ possibly the most important managerial skill of all), influencing and communication, and also at a range of day‐to‐day practical issues such as recruitment, performance appraisal and handling meetings; and Part 3 looks at finance, project management, decision‐making, negotiating and creativity. Twelve of the chapters are completely new and the others have been rigorously updated from the earlier editions. To maintain the practical level of information, there are checklists of key points and further reading and information sources.