The Financial Times Guide to Management

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Views from the front line

For this chapter I have gathered the views of some of the many manaagers I have met and worked with over the years. I asked them to share their ‘Management Cheat Sheet’, consisting of three things:

1. Top tip Your Practical Pearl of wisdom to help others achieve it.
2. Top pitfall The trap that you see yourself and others falling into time after time that just doesn’t work.
3. Top takeaway Your headline thought on what great management and leadership looks like.

I can think of no better way to end this book. Remember:

‘In times of drastic change it is the learners who survive. The learned find themselves fully equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.’

(Author unknown – submitted by Joan Zimmerman)

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