Frontal Attack, Divide and Conquer, the Fait Accompli and 118 Other Tactics Managers Must Know

by Richard Hobart Buskirk and Richard H. Buskirk

Book Overview

A handbook of managerial tactics, this book lays out every trick in the proverbial book to provide managers with their most important tool: knowledge. Introduces tactical thinking and provides insights into some of the common, though not often discussed, tactics in management. Discusses everything from sandbagging to steamrolling, shows you how to aim at weakness, find a fall guy, pour oil on troubled waters, leave well-enough alone, hitch a lie to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471506621
• ISBN13: 9780471506621
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Sometimes-Dirty Tricks To Navigate a Job and Your Life

This 1989 release is an updated version of Buskirk's book, "Handbook of Managerial Tactics", which was published in 1976. It's a very tactics-heavy book, offering dozens of ways to navigate and control situations in mainly work environs, but in life ones as well. Chockful of examples in a variety of situations, you'll not only uncover how you can manipulate situations, but why certain situations in your past may have unfolded the way they did against you. Some of the tactics seem a bit "dirty", but the author makes clear that such labels are mostly judgement calls, and no one is saying you have to use them...just know when they're being used against you.An excellent book for managers and employees looking to climb the ladder, or just the usually quiet person at the family dinner table amidst generations of chaos. Navigate the rough waters to success at work and home with this lean, powerful tome.