CHAPTER 23

MANAGING DIFFERENT STYLES: THE PRACTICE

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You do not need to be a genius to realise that different people have different styles. As long as you can still fog a mirror, you will know this to be true. Different sorts of psychologists and consulting firms all have their unique ways of categorising people and they all have their own best theory on what you are meant to do about it. For a not so small fee, they will tell you. You can find an outline of many approaches on the web.

For free, you can observe your colleagues and come up with your own jargon-free list of different ways of working. Here are a few of the common ways in which managers ...

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