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Grow Wherever You Work: Straight Talk to Help with Your Toughest Challenges
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Grow Wherever You Work: Straight Talk to Help with Your Toughest Challenges

by Joanna Barsh
October 2017
Beginner
272 pages
6h 6m
English
McGraw-Hill
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5

When People Don’t Come On Board

Perhaps you’re leading a team of people old enough to be your parents. It’s possible that you’ve never met them because they work somewhere far away. They don’t report to you, but you’re responsible for a work product that requires their inputs. And they have their own goals, different from yours. What the #%&* are you going to do?

Management 101 says that to achieve early impact, you should prepare objectives, a plan, metrics for success, and your communications. The more complex and global the assignment is, the more planning, measuring, and presenting you do. But what happens?

Progress stalls.

Michael experienced something like that. Just promoted to manage the industrial plant’s finance function, he was ...

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ISBN: 9781260026474