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Managing Your Manager
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Managing Your Manager

How to Get Ahead with Any Type of Boss

Gonzague Dufour
McGraw-Hill, 2010

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7

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Recommendation

A stressed-out manager often results in stressed-out employees. You can have a more positive, productive professional life if you understand your supervisors and handle them according to their personality profiles. Human resources executive Gonzague Dufour identifies and explains the six common managerial types. He devotes most chapters to profiling these archetypes, listing identifying traits according to professional tactics that work or don’t work for each manager in specific situations, such as asking for a raise or dealing with a crisis. While many managers manifest characteristics from more than one boss type, and not all leaders are so easy to categorize, you will find yourself nodding in agreement with many of the author’s points. getAbstract recommends this practical, useful book to entry- and mid-level employees, as well as to higher-level executives who wonder, “Am I a good boss?”

Take-Aways

  • No manager is perfect, so learn what works and doesn’t work for your boss.
  • Work effectively with your manager by identifying and understanding his or her type:
  • “Bullies” are tough and aggressive; they take unnecessary risks but deliver results.

About the Author

Gonzague Dufour has been an HR executive with major companies worldwide.

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    A. T. 1 decade ago
    nice coverage of manager-types and also appliable methodologies to deal with them ... a candle in the dark-room ..!:)
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    R. D. 1 decade ago
    For an entry level or mid manager insight