The 27 Challenges Managers Face

EPILOGUE

Now that you’ve read this book, I hope you are inspired (or at least motivated) to dedicate (or rededicate) yourself to practicing the fundamentals of management with rigor and consistency.

If you read the book from beginning to end, you have seen case after case in which it’s clear that things go wrong because the manager is managing on autopilot, engaging mostly in relatively unstructured, low-substance, and hit-or-miss communication. Having read this book, you should never again allow yourself to be one of those managers.

Through reading about one challenge after another, I hope you’ve fully appreciated how the most effective managers apply the fundamentals of management to gain control of any situation and how the solution unfolds ...