A snappy little book containing facts, jargon, and inside information--all that readers need to know to hold their own among the experts.
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"Amusing, short, perceptive ... Good relaxation, and as an alternative to the cost of a pack of cigarettes or a double Scotch, considerably more rewarding."
--The Accountant's Magazine
"World-weary light-heartedness about managers, their sins, careers and prospects... The Bluffer's Guide to Management fits into a coat pocket and would make waiting for a late train a positive delight."
--The Journal of the American Chamber of Commerce
"Attempts to be humorous about company management are plentiful, but this book achieves the rare distinction of actually being funny. "
--The Accountant
--The Accountant's Magazine
"World-weary light-heartedness about managers, their sins, careers and prospects... The Bluffer's Guide to Management fits into a coat pocket and would make waiting for a late train a positive delight."
--The Journal of the American Chamber of Commerce
"Attempts to be humorous about company management are plentiful, but this book achieves the rare distinction of actually being funny. "
--The Accountant
From the Back Cover
Management has many facets. It is about style, techniques, theories, functions, tools and leadership. How can you grasp them? Fortunately you do not have to.
The essence of bluffing is to retain control of a situation or at least your position in it, without enough data, assets or power to justify that retention. That, as it happens, is also the essence of management.
Bluffer's Guides is a series of snappy little books containing facts, jargon, and all you need to know for instant expertise.
The essence of bluffing is to retain control of a situation or at least your position in it, without enough data, assets or power to justify that retention. That, as it happens, is also the essence of management.
Bluffer's Guides is a series of snappy little books containing facts, jargon, and all you need to know for instant expertise.
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This review is from: The Bluffer's Guide to Management: Bluff Your Way in Management (Bluffer's Guides - Oval Books) (Paperback)
This book is just what a Bluffer's Guide should be: short and concise, yet offering very reasonable advice to those who aspire to become good managers, and explaining fancy terms to the happy bluffer who has no time to read thick books on the subject. The author John Courtis obviously knows what he is talking about and on many important subjects he refreshingly offers his own opinion instead of the politically correct one.
"The acid test of the true manager under pressure is that he or she is the only one not immediately doing something." "Employees are very important, but they are not the be-all-and-end-all of a business." "Mistrust all secondhand Communications." "Never worry." "Motivation is like leadership and sex - practise it, but don't talk about it too much." A small book to carry around with you so you always have some good use for the minutes you are waiting for the bus or the waiter. Much in contrast to the Harvard Business Review, it is also most useful for the manager of a very small business.
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