Thursday, March 13, 2008

Manager Mechanics

Manager Mechanics by Eric P. Bloom is a great book to read if you’re going to be a manager for the first time. It teaches you the importance of being a successful manager and the skills that any manager should be aware of in order to have a pleasant working environment, not only for your co-workers but as well as for yourself. This book mentioned a great point, which is, being a parent is great training for being a manager, because in both, you provide praise, discipline, guidance, direction, leadership, and a pleasant environment.

Each chapter in this book features easy-to-access key points, lessons that each manager should be aware of, and most importantly people skills, especially because as a manager you are constantly communicating and setting examples for people as well as being a role model. As Eric P. Bloom quoted in this book, “Leadership is proactive and management is reactive. The best managers have a combination of both”.

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