Practical Coach: Management Skills for Everyday Life, The

Preface

My goal in this book is to provide ideas, tools, and best practices that you can use to increase your effectiveness, enhance your career (in terms of marketability, promotions, salary increases, and job satisfaction), and feel more fulfilled with your life in general. These are not small goals, nor are they impossible ones. Let me say this up front: If you are effective at your job but your family and friends can't remember the last time you paid attention to them, if you never take a vacation without worrying about your work, and if you are headed for poor health or an early death because of the stress of your job, that's not my idea of effective management.

So what is management? Management textbooks say it is about getting things done ...