The Talented Manager
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The Talented Manager

67 Gems of Business Wisdom

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eBook - PDF

The Talented Manager

67 Gems of Business Wisdom

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In this new collection of articles on talent acquisition and retention, Adrian Furnham, author of The Elephant in the Boardroom, offers an engaging and witty look into the world of the talented manager. Based on solid research this book offers a substantial introduction to the importance of talent in the workplace.

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Year
2012
ISBN
9780230369764

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Figures and Tables
  4. Preface
  5. Introduction
  6. A walk in the woods
  7. Aberrant self-promotion at work
  8. All the questions and all the answers
  9. Appraisal systems
  10. Beware of creatives
  11. Blamestorming
  12. Career success
  13. The catch-phrase technique
  14. Change
  15. Charlatan detection
  16. Child support
  17. The content of job advertisements
  18. Could do better
  19. The dangers of forecasting
  20. Different perspectives
  21. Does coaching work?
  22. The drive for money
  23. The emotional contract at work
  24. Esthetics at work
  25. Evidence at work
  26. Expansion
  27. Faking it
  28. Face-ism and shape-ism at work
  29. Food at work
  30. Gender and job satisfaction
  31. Gossip is good for you
  32. Hating HR
  33. How management style leads directly to profit and loss
  34. The hyper-moral obsessive
  35. Improving references
  36. Incentive schemes
  37. Inspirational teachers
  38. Interview techniques
  39. The leader profit chain
  40. The legacy problem
  41. Lie detectors
  42. Loafers, suckers and free-riders
  43. Market research
  44. Mentoring at work
  45. Money as a motivator
  46. The narcissistic manager
  47. Nutters at work
  48. The obsolescent CEO
  49. Peanuts and monkeys
  50. Power and status in organizations
  51. Processes, profit and people
  52. Protecting vulnerable customers
  53. Quant Jocks and qual Jills
  54. Recognition programs that don't work
  55. Religion at work
  56. Resilience and hardiness
  57. Resistance to change
  58. The scientific understanding of the public
  59. Seven lessons for appraisal
  60. Showing off the CEO
  61. Smarts
  62. Spirituality at work
  63. Striving for power
  64. Surveillance at work
  65. Taking care and taking charge
  66. Taking offense
  67. To do a Ph.D.
  68. What is conscientiousness?
  69. Whistle-blowing at work
  70. Wit at work
  71. The work ethic
  72. Writing as therapy
  73. Writing your own obituary