Responsible Managers Get Results: How the Best Find Solutions Not Excuses - Tapa dura

Responsible Managers Get Results shows you how to master the two crucial skills of a responsible manager - problem solving and getting people to work together. With those skills and the detailed, step-by-step guidelines and procedures the book provides, you will be able to: focus your organization (and yourself) on producing the skills, attitudes, and abilities that form the foundation of responsibility; break down barriers to taking responsibility that exist in society as a whole, as well as in individual and corporate mind-sets; initiate and sustain meaningful change. Enhance collaboration and team efforts throughout your organization; elevate problem-solving to a strategic, ongoing process and develop optimal solutions to problems using a proven seven-step method; overcome organizational cultures that block teamwork; design effective teams and manage group processes to produce desired results; and create an organization that inspires responsibility in its workforce, and more.

What makes a successful manager? Intelligence, leadership ability, outstanding organizational skills, just plain old perseverance? These are not enough, say the authors. Responsibility -- being responsible enough to do what it takes to produce the necessary results -- is the prime determinant of management (and business) success.

This book contains detailed, step-by-step guidelines and procedures for developing the two key skills of a responsible manager -- problem solving and getting people to work together. Using those skills readers will:
-- enhance collaboration throughout the organization.
-- develop optimal solutions to problems by using an original seven-step method.
-- design effective teams and manage group processes to produce results, and more.

Managers, trainers, and HR professionals disillusioned with quick fix fads will find this fundamental approach to success refreshing and invaluable.