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The Bluffer's Guide to Management: Bluff Your Way in Management (Bluffer's Guides - Oval Books)

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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.