The Working Leader: The Triumph of High Performance Over Conventional Management Principles

by Leonard R. Sayles

Book Overview

Schooled to oversee fixed, almost unvarying routines, managers today are unprepared to manage the conflicts in modern work flow relationships. Sayles shows with vivid case studies how middle managers with an in-depth understanding of the organization can resolve the inherent contradictions and ambiguities among design, sales, and manufacturing.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684871033
• ISBN13: 9780684871035
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Free Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Recognition is Long Overdo

This quite simply is one of the most important epositions of the actual practice of effective leaders as opposed to flavor of the month approaches of the best sellers on. Sayles is an organizational sociologist who has studied what effective leaders actually do. Read, savour, and learn. If you are a manager combine this with Beyond the Hype to undertand in depth what is required of a manager.