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So? You're a Manager Now What? eBook Peter de Jager Kevin Davies

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"So? You're a Manager... Now What?" isn’t an academic tome on management. It’s a collection of articles I wish I’d stumbled across when I was promoted to management many years ago.

When I became a manager I was incredibly naïve about what it meant ‘to manage’. I micro-managed everything. I had no sense of how to spend my time. I rushed from one task to another without any attempt to think about what I should be doing and ultimately I failed in my new role. Not permanently, as I eventually succeeded. Make enough errors and sooner or later, you figure out that you’re doing something fundamentally wrong.

What I wished I’d had in the early months of my promotion was some simple hints, some basic clues as to what I should be doing. Even the most basic of management concepts would have saved me, and my staff, a lot of anguish.

Over the next 25 years, I found myself doing a lot of writing and in looking back over this body of work, I discovered it contained the very articles I would have liked to have read many years ago.

This collection covers the most rudimentary of management skills how to delegate; manage your time; make decisions; solve problems; treat people with respect and dignity;, the need to plan; to prioritize; to praise; and even to take time to sit back, put your feet up on the desk and do the unthinkable in our hurried times… stop and think about what it means to manage.

I hope you find the collection useful. There are no deep insights here, just common sense and gentle reminders of what we already know to be true.

Peter de Jager
February, 2007