Product Description

Every manager wants to be brilliant - to be the best they can be, to be successful and respected, and to do the right thing in the right situation to get the desired result.

Now in its second edition, Brilliant Manager is designed to give you a head start over those learning just from experience. It contains an invaluable mixture of generally agreed best practice and the experience of others to provide tools, tactics and techniques for every situation.

Its been fully revised and expanded, with great new sections on top business tips, salaries, how to handle harassment, finance, differences between project and team management.  

You’ll wonder how you ever managed without it.

DON'T BE GOOD, BE BRILLIANT.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #121189 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-19
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 207 pages

Dame Sandra Dawson - KPMG Professor of Management at Cambridge University, Judge Business School
Accessible, sensible and knowledgeable, Brilliant Manager is a must-read for anyone wanting a guide to management today.

Sir John Chisholm, Chairman, QinetiQ
There are many weighty management tomes out there, but few can match the sheer usefulness and insight found in Brilliant Manager

From the Publisher
Every manager wants to be brilliant - to be the best they can be. We all want to be successful and respected. We all want to do the right thing in the right situation to get the result we want.

Brilliant Manger is designed to give you a head start over those learning just from experience. It contains an invaluable mixture of generally agreed best practice and the experience of others to provide tools, tactics and techniques for every situation.

The book provides guiding principles to manage by and the handful of most valuable things you need to know and do in a broad range of managerial situations.

There is a lot that can be said about management and leadership that can be described in very black and white terms, but often isn’t. This book is designed for every frontline manager. Based on mangement theory, management science and experience, translated into pure practice.

Read it, refer to it frequently and refresh your memory regularly. That way you’ll be primed and prepared for every situation and will be on the managerial fast track for effectiveness.

Customer Reviews

Brilliant Manager - Brilliant Book
I have read a fair few books that promise to give the secrets of how to be a good manager. Most of them are very long winded. What I liked most about this book is that it is very condensed, has been written in a very easy to read style and gives small accurate summaries. Nic certainly comes over as a person who knows his stuff and as a boss you would like to work for - no easy task. I read this book over Christmas and it was the surprise hit of the season. Definitely worth a five star review and money well spent.

Tells you what other books don't
Nobody wants to be a bad manager. Yet there are a lot of them about... So how do you make sure you aren't one of them? This is one of the few books that I really wish I'd had from the outset. It distills down what separates the best managers from the OK ones (and sets them miles apart from the David Brents of this world) and turns it into simple easily applied wisdom on what you need to know, and things you ought to say and do. I dip into it often and it'd be the first book I'd recommend to anybody in the early stages of a managerial career.

A great book in a great series
It's a pity more managers don't have the attributes recommended in this book. It all seems like common sense which is rather heart-breaking since few of the managers I know are like this in reality. Still, at least with Nic Peeling you are encouraged to look at it all with a sense of humour. I reckon good managers are born and not created. They either have it or they have not. It's just a pity ........