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HBR's 10 Must Reads for New Managers (with bonus article “How Managers Become Leaders” by Michael D. Watkins) (HBR's 10 Must Reads)
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HBR's 10 Must Reads for New Managers (with bonus article “How Managers Become Leaders” by Michael D. Watkins) (HBR's 10 Must Reads)

by Harvard Business Review, Linda A. Hill, Herminia Ibarra, Robert B. Cialdini, Daniel Goleman
February 2017
Beginner content levelBeginner
224 pages
4h 33m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Audiobook available
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Management Time: Who’s Got the Monkey?

by William Oncken, Jr., and Donald L. Wass

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in the November–December 1974 issue of HBR and has been one of the publication’s best-selling reprints. For its reissue, Harvard Business Review asked Stephen R. Covey to provide a commentary.

WHY IS IT THAT MANAGERS are typically running out of time while their subordinates are typically running out of work? Here we shall explore the meaning of management time as it relates to the interaction between managers and their bosses, their peers, and their subordinates.

Specifically, we shall deal with three kinds of management time:

Boss-imposed time—used to accomplish those activities that the boss requires and that ...

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ISBN: 9781633693036