The leadership art of combining reward and punishment

Author: Peter E. Fried
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Publish Date: 2006-03-01
Features: Are you the best manager? How can you quickly become the best manager? Do you know the two abilities that the best managers must possess—collaboration and command? Do you know how to grasp the timing and scale of collaboration and command? This book provides specific and practical advice for different management types of every manager, helping you complete the self-examination process, understand the examination results, and know the impact your management has on your subordinates. This book is a practical guide to workplace behavior. Peter E. Fried, who has 23 years of experience as the CEO at Mercer Consulting, explains the leadership art that the best managers must possess—collaboration and command—to everyone, offering personalized insights on how you manage now, how to improve your management, when to collaborate with your employees, and when to command them. This book provides you with numerous tools, techniques, examples, and ideas. If you can use them effectively, they will greatly benefit your career development and organizational building. The book includes content such as: "2R is better than 1R," identifying your natural management type, the right way for command-style managers to command, the right way for collaborative managers to collaborate, confirming your management type, don't be constrained, and cultivating the belief in developing comprehensive management abilities, etc.