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Rules of Thinking, The
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Rules of Thinking, The

by Richard Templar
September 2019
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
4h 15m
English
Pearson Business
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RULE 88

Stand back and take in the view

A senior manager applied for a job running a big wildlife charity. The interview process was very thorough and spread over a couple of days. It involved tours and interviews and presentations and so on. She spent ages researching the requirements of the job, the structure of the charity, how they spent their money, and put together loads of evidence that she could handle a budget, manage an organisation and had the kind of management style they were looking for.

Finally she wrote her presentation. When it was drafted, she asked a friend of mine to take a look at it for her. He told me that she had set out a really clear vision for the future of the organisation and how she would make it happen … but ...

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