Preface

Welcome to this book. The 100 Ideas it contains revolve around your role and responsibilities as a manager.

This isn't a textbook, it's an informal conversation between you and me about the subject of our mutual interests. All I have done is to break down the proverbial elephant into a hundred bites. Therefore you should feel free to start where you like and then follow your own course of interest through the book as and when you have the time to dip into it.

Like the late Peter Drucker, I think that the first question managers have to ask themselves is: ‘What am I being paid to do?’ By the end of this book you will, I trust, know the answer to that question.

Our whole understanding of management is undergoing a slow revolution following ...

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