Effective Management

A Keith Barnes

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In any organization, there are key players—individuals who set the tone and the culture. Effective Management offers tips for them to become the instruments of change. The keys in this book will help managers support teams of people who rise to the occasion, solve problems proactively, and take advantage of positive opportunities.

Culture is at the root of organizational health. But culture comes from leaders. So winning culture only arises when an organization has effective management. There are many long books about how to become a better leader, but Effective Management gets right to the point: To engage with your employees, you need to practice the 20 keys. With practical stories of a fictional leadership team supplementing each chapter, A. Keith Barnes illustrates the concepts presented in the book. It is easy to see what goes right and wrong, rather than only finding out about leadership theory.

Some of the 20 keys to a winning culture include meeting dos and don’ts, who gets the credit, dealing with underperformers, and how to feature the benefits. Instead of reading 20 books on each issue, you should read this book to get to the real core of each issue, and see why changing your approach makes such a big difference in organizations.

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Author

A. Keith Barnes served as the S. V. Hunsaker Professor of Management at the University of Redlands in Southern California from 1984 to 1999, where he won awards for teaching and service. He authored the academic book Management Maturity; Prerequisite to Total Quality Management and more than 60 articles and monographs on a wide variety of business subjects. He holds a doctorate in Organizational Management and an MBA, both from Pepperdine University. His undergraduate work was completed in England (Mechanical Engineering) and in Canada (Psychology). Before becoming an academic, he was a senior executive with the J. I. Case Company, which was then a part of the Fortune 500 Company Tenneco.

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Having read many business and management books, and taken much of value from most of them, I urge managers at every level and in any setting to devour this one, written by a man who knows the subject intimately and writes about it with clarity.

Dr. Barnes does an exceptional job of condensing years of combined academic and professional experience into a superior management training tool delivered in just a few pages. The practical examples and easy-to-read explanations make this guide a must-read for all who care about effective management and creating a winning organizational culture.

Professor Barnes brings equal measures of rigorous scholarship and leadership experience to everything he delivers, and in this accessible book he provides simple, straightforward guidelines tempered with profound wisdom. It is a must read, and a perpetual reference to be followed by all who seek the goal of excellence in their organization.

You won’t believe the wisdom packed into this book. Barnes’ approach will challenge anyone interested in creating a winning culture to evaluate their current practices and identify opportunities to improve. You will find yourself returning to the insights within this manual time and time again.