Managing to Make a Difference: Discovering Employees as Colleagues

By Woodrow Sears

No manager succeeds without the support of co-workers, but the culture of many work places casts workers as "sub-ordinates" -- people of a lower class. How can employees support management if they are treated as "less than" by managers? Until they are involved as peers and colleagues, employees' great pool of talents will be withheld. Can your company afford those losses? Discover the better way!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Woodrow Sears
• Release date: Feb 2, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458150653

Woodrow Sears

Semi-retired consultant, active college instructor, author (6 books for HRD Press in 2007-8), regular contributor to the Cincom "ExpertAccess" business e-zine. I hold one of the early doctorates in Human Resource Development, lectured extensively on project management on an international circuit, worked with clients to install systems, and was heavily involved in civil rights, supervisory, and management training. Came to Lithuania in 1998 as a volunteer, and never left. I live in Vilnius in a former monastery, heat with wood (by choice), and love cooking for friends. Living in Europe is special everyday!

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MANAGING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE:

Discovering Employees as Colleagues

by

Dr. Woody Sears

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MANAGING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE:

Discovering Employees as Colleagues

Copyright © 2010 Woodrow Sears

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CONTENTS

1. Author’s Note

2. Introduction

3. Never Tolerate a Mistake

4. Management is the Imposition of Will

5. Drifting Toward the Lowest Common Denominator

6. Managing to Make a Difference

7. Different = Better, Faster, Cheaper

8. Disciplined Delivery is the First Requirement

9. Employees Take the Rap, OR, The 15% Truth

10. Managing Against Standards

11. Managing Against Time

12. Management is a Subtle Process

13. Summary

14. About the Author

Author's Note:

No manager succeeds without the support of his or her co-workers. To think of those individuals as subordinates—literally, of a lower class—is to separate yourself from a primary source of productivity, intelligence, and enthusiasm that leads to profitable results. Out of their insecurity, new managers tend to over-use the authority that