Redefining the manager's job: The proactive manager in a reactive world

By Merritt L Kastens

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814456197
• ISBN13: 9780814456194
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: AMACOM
• Length: 283 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.

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A must read!

For all those who are disenchanted and frustrated by the jargon and mythology that now afflict management, industrial planner Merritt Kastens has written a truly "Utopian" book. It redefines the manager's role: "The manager takes available resources and manipulates them in such a way as to create something of value that did not exist before." It employs a new conceptual framework for the functions of management, providing innovative but rational approaches to handling today's complex responsibilities. Kastens shows how to: recognize new opportunities for organizational and personal growth, get things done while others sit on their hunches, focus resources on results, make production productive and support services supportive, cope with forces you can't control, escape double taxation. get rid of incopetents, substitute rational procedures for irrational practices, plan for the real world, overcome managerial lag, get more output from fixed assets, and much more.