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Mastering Management Styles: Expert Guidance for Managers

By : Harris M Silverman
Book Image

Mastering Management Styles: Expert Guidance for Managers

By: Harris M Silverman

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Mastering Management Styles: Expert Guidance for Managers
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Managing work versus managing people


One final point before we start to dig into the meat and potatoes. It's worthwhile to make a distinction between managing work and managing people. Managing work is actually pretty easy; it's mostly a question of being organized and of keeping on top of deadlines. In today's environment, though, you rarely have the luxury of simply managing work; you have to manage people as well. Managers who step into a management role thinking that it's just a question of getting the work done are riding for a fall; you have to be prepared to deal with the people side of things as well.

Incidentally, this is a mistake that people sometimes make when they're hiring: they hire someone who's really good at getting work done, thinking that this is a qualification for management. But the hard part of management is dealing with people. Never forget that. (By the way, sometimes people make the opposite mistake as well: they hire someone with people skills who's no good at the work. Needless to say, that doesn't work either.)