Book Titles

The Effective Manager

By Mark Horstman

Year Published: 2016
ISBN-13: 978-1119244608
Categories: Leadership, Management, Success

97 Quotes Found

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The Effective Manager:

…your relationship with your directs… is by far the most important thing you can do to improve results and retention.

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The Effective Manager:

Just about the only place where feedback isn’t given, isn’t used, isn’t taken for granted is between managers and their directs.

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The Effective Manager:

If you want high performance, you’re going to have to talk about it with your directs. It matters more than anything else, other than your relationship with them.

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The Effective Manager:

Everyone has his or her own point of diminishing returns.

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The Effective Manager:

As managers, we’re responsible not just for the status quo, but for improving the performance of the whole team.

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The Effective Manager:

To be an effective manager means encouraging and inspiring all of your directs to higher performance even when they say they don’t want to…

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The Effective Manager:

However you manage, your techniques, behavior, and philosophy must be both teachable to others and sustainable.

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The Effective Manager:

…the way in which people do their work matters… But somehow we don’t hold managers to this standard.

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The Effective Manager:

The way an effective manager is visible to others and is teachable to others.

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The Effective Manager:

To sustain organizational growth, new managers must be created, and the way to create new managers is to teach them before they move into the role.

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