Don't oil the squeaky wheel : and 19 other contrarian ways to improve your leadership effectiveness

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Title:

Author:

Rinke, Wolf J.

ISBN:

9780071429931

Personal Author:

Rinke, Wolf J.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

New York : McGraw-Hill, c2004.

Physical Description:

xii, 190 p. ; 23 cm.

Contents:

Ch. 1. Knowledge is not power -- Ch. 2. Management and leadership theories do not work -- Ch. 3. Be selfish -- Ch. 4. Don't manage people -- Ch. 5. Don't be proud -- Ch. 6. Don't be tough -- Ch. 7. Don't play to win -- Ch. 8. Don't prove yourself -- Ch. 9. Practice KID, not KITA -- Ch. 10. Don't have people work for you -- Ch. 11. Don't focus on the bottom line -- Ch. 12. Don't have goals and objectives -- Ch. 13. Trust all people all the time -- Ch. 14. Don't oil the squeaky wheel -- Ch. 15. Don't worry about pay -- Ch. 16. Don't tell people what to do -- Ch. 17. Don't satisfy customers -- Ch. 18. Don't downsize -- Ch. 19. Don't respond to the urgent -- Ch. 20. Don't be committed -- Leadership roadmap.

Subject Term:

Leadership.

Management.

Electronic Access:

Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0413/2004001377.html
Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/mh042/2004001377.html
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/mh051/2004001377.html

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Summary

A playfully subversive new approach to solving age-old management conundrums

In a book that will entertain as it instructs, acclaimed management guru Wolf Rinke distills a lifetime of management consulting experience into 20 easy-to-digest lessons. Offering novel approaches to ancient organizational riddles--for instance: "Don't Satisfy Customers," "Don't Make Decisions," and "Don't Look Good"--Rinke's rules give managers fresh angles from which to reappraise and solve their management quandaries while putting smiles on their faces. * Written by one of the nation's most wellknown business contrarians

Offers unorthodox approaches to mastering the complexities and contradictions of managing and leading people to greater productivity and success Organized around 20 tenets, each one focusing on a specific management conundrum that has bedeviled countless generations of managers