Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Essential Managers: Influencing People

The book I have read is on how to influence people at work. The book points out 3 important needs to become influential; to be logical and specific about your idea, to be a good motivated/motivating colleague, and to be a good presenter. The book is organized with index so that readers can easily identify what the whole section is about. The target audience of this book is a broad range of ordinary workers at any company or organization since the book gives general ideas about influence rather than narrow and specific situations. The purpose of the book, to inform how to influence people, is generally accomplished, but the book does not contain many examples, and this keeps the book from being well informative. The part I liked was where it teaches why we should be logical and how it affects the reputations. Other sections have some useful suggestions, but they are things we can learn at school. Overall the book is so-so.

Johnson, R. & Eaton, J. 2002. Essential managers: Influencing people. DK Publishing. NY.

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