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Understanding and Changing Your Management Style Robert C. Benfari

Understanding and Changing Your Management Style By Robert C. Benfari

Understanding and Changing Your Management Style by Robert C. Benfari


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Summary

According to Robert Benfari, our ability to manage effectively is based on a mix of characteristics that can be analyzed, understood and, most importantly, changed. In this book, he identifies six ingredients of successful management.

Understanding and Changing Your Management Style Summary

Understanding and Changing Your Management Style by Robert C. Benfari

Are the best managers born that way, while the rest of us must struggle with the role and its responsibilities? According to Robert Benfari, our ability to manage effectively is based on a mix of characteristics that can be analyzed, understood and, most importantly, changed. In this book, he identifies six ingredients of successful management and uses the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to show readers how they can devise personality-specific strategies for improving their ability to resolve conflict, solve problems, manage stress, positively influence others, and handle difficult situations at work.

About Robert C. Benfari

ROBERT C. BENFARI is a psychologist, business consultant, and trainer who has been teaching and applying the Myers--Briggs Type Indicator and other management assessment instruments in business settings for thirty years. He has worked with organizations throughout the world, including Raytheon and the U.S. government. He was a professor at the Harvard University School of Public Health and is currently Lecturer on Continuing Education at Harvard and visiting professor at the University de la Empresensa (Argentina). He is also president of BGL Ltd., a consulting firm.

Table of Contents

Preface; About the Author; Introduction: What Makes a Good Manager; Part One: A Model for Change; 1. The Dynamics of Management Style: What Can Be Changed; 2. Personality and Psychology: What's Your Type; 3. Practical Intelligence: How Do We Make It Work; 4. Mental Models: How Do We Make the Shift; Part Two: The Elements of Management Style; 5. Needs: The Drive Towards Competence; 6. Power Bases: Influence, Authority, and Expertise; 7. Problem Solving and Conflict Management: Catalysts for Change; 8. Values: Clarifying What You Stand For; 9. Stress: Managing Work and Difficult People; 10. Putting It All Together: Developing an Action Plan for Your Management Style.

Additional information

GOR002128457
9780787908584
0787908584
Understanding and Changing Your Management Style by Robert C. Benfari
Used - Very Good
Hardback
John Wiley & Sons Inc
1999-09-10
304
N/A
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