The Chameleon Manager (New Skills Portfolio) [Paperback]

Brian Clegg (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 27, 1998 | Series: New Skills Portfolio

Today's managers are faced with many conflicting demands and situations. This book provides practical ways of achieving the impossible:

*How can you be a generalist and a specialist?
*An individual expert and a 'connected' team player?
*Manage more people with less time and fewer resources and be entrepreneurial at the same time?

Complete with its own website, which gives further information and links to other sites.

The New Skills Portfolio is a groundbreaking new series, published in association with the Industrial Society, which re-defines the core management skills managers and team leaders need to be competitive. Each title is action-focused blending 20th century management initiatives/trends with a new flexible skills portfolio.

The Industrial Society is one of the largest public training providers in the UK. It has over 10,000 member organisations and promotes best practice through its publishing, consultancy, training and advisory services. For more information contact their website on www.indsoc.co.uk

Outlines the range of new skills needed by managers in changing organizations
Complete with its own website, which gives further information and links to other sites.
Published in association with the Industrial Society

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From the Back Cover

Today's managers are faced with many conflicting demands and situations. This book provides practical ways of achieving the impossible: * How can you be a generalist and a specialist? * An individual expert and a 'connected' team player? * Manage more people with less time * Develop the skills to build a new career when the job for life has become an anachronism. The Chameleon Manager provides the range of new skills that professionals and managers need to survive and flourish in the ever-changing business environment. It is about re-assessing your working life, finding new opportunities and exploiting them, from increasing your knowledge of team dynamics to making use of the vast power of a good personal network. The Chameleon Manager is all about finding and maintaining your preferred portfolio of activities and developing the skills to make it happen.

About the Author

After 17 years in the corporate world, specialising in finding innovative ways of using computers and information to benefit business, Brian Clegg established himself as a freelance writer and consultant on both creativity and human/computer interface. He has provided consultancy to large and small companies in the financial, travel, pharmaceutical and IT sectors, and is a regular contributor to PC Week, Personal Computer World and the World Wide Web based magazine, VNU/Net. Co-author, with Paul Birch, of Business Creativity, (1995), Imagination Engineering (1996) and Dis-Organization (1998). Author of The Chameleon Manager (1998) for the Butterworth Heinemann New Skills Portfolio.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann (October 27, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 075064026X
• ISBN-13: 978-0750640268
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,843,503 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Brian has written a number of popular science books, including Ecologic, The God Effect, on the most remarkable phenomenon of the quantum world and Before the Big Bang. Other titles include A Brief History of Infinity and Inflight Science, which explores the science that's all around you and outside your window when you are on an airplane.

Along with appearances at the Royal Institution in London he has spoken at venues from Oxford and Cambridge Universities to Cheltenham Festival of Science, has contributed to radio and TV programmes, and is a popular speaker at schools. Brian is also editor of the successful www.popularscience.co.uk book review site and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Brian has Masters degrees from Cambridge University in Natural Sciences and from Lancaster University in Operational Research, a discipline originally developed during the Second World War to apply the power of mathematics to warfare. It has since been widely applied to problem solving and decision making in business.

From Lancaster, he joined British Airways, where he ran teams including Emerging Technologies, amongst the most eccentric but talented staff in the company, who researched technologies from fingerprint recognition to electronic cash. This emphasis on innovation led to training with Dr. Edward de Bono, and in 1994 he left BA to set up his own creativity consultancy, running courses on the development of new ideas and products, and the creative solution of business problems. Clients include the BBC, the Met Office, British Airways, GlaxoSmithKline, Sony, The Treasury, Royal Bank of Scotland and many other blue-chips.

Brian has also written regular columns, features and reviews for numerous publications, including Nature, The Guardian, PC Week, Computer Weekly, Personal Computer World, Innovative Leader, Professional Manager, BBC History, Good Housekeeping and House Beautiful. His books have been translated into many languages, including German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Polish, Turkish, Norwegian, Thai and even Indonesian.

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5.0 out of 5 stars How to have fun and thrive in an uncertain world, November 13, 1998

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This review is from: The Chameleon Manager (New Skills Portfolio) (Paperback)

Fed up of boring business books that use too many jargon words and don't help you do what you want to achieve in life? Worried about the latest <jargon>sizing in your company? Read this book! The latest offering from one half of the Clegg and Birch duo (too many of their books are only available in the UK). These guys make work fun, and actually practice what they preach. Click on Amazon.com, don't walk to your bookstore and get them all!