Now translated into 12 languages! This reader-friendly, icon-rich series is must reading for managers at every level All managers, whether brand-new to their positions or well established in the corporate hierarchy, can use a little "brushing up" now and then. The skills-based Briefcase Books series is filled with ideas and strategies to help managers become more capable, efficient, effective, and valuable to their corporations. In today's fast-changing, uncertain business environment, effective management is more difficult than ever. The Manager's Survival Guide is the first hands-on, broad-brush guidebook for handling difficult management situations with skill, diplomacy, and success. Keying on techniques for recognizing and dealing with problems quicklyor even before they beginit explains how to set priorities, interface with both upper management and employees, implement process management, and more.

This is a guide to the skills new managers (and those who want to become managers) need to succeed. It deals with the basic, high-payoff things an effective manager employs to get the job done. It aims to provide a model to help readers develop and use skills to the maximum. The author discusses how to develop key employees, set priorities so that the work gets done on time, motivate workers and correct poor performers, delegate responsibility, communicate effectively, and develop teamwork.