Part III: The Invincible Management Style

Chapter List

Rule 21: You Can Only Micromanage Ten Employees and About Six Hundred Square Feet

Rule 22: The Invincible Executive Delves into Specific Problems at Great Depth

Rule 23: Intimidation Chases Away Talent, Opportunity, and Creativity

Rule 24: Spend More Time on Information Inflow Than Information Outflow

Rule 25: Wring the Emotion Out of Risk Analysis

Rule 26: Take Decisive Action to End Discord

Rule 27: Get Results Through Alignment and Adjustment, Not Democracy

Rule 28: Minimize Meetings

Rule 29: Negotiate the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, But Leave the Games to Others

Rule 30: Put the Interests of the Organization over the Interests of Individuals—Very Carefully

Conclusion

Part Overview

You have developed a reasoned, flexible route to success. You have the refined, charismatic personality that makes for long-term professional momentum. But if you cannot manage others well, you are anything but invincible. Professionally, you are dead in the water. It is time to supplement your career development and personality skills with an effective management style. Let's conclude the book with a discussion of how executives with staying power manage other people. How do they develop ever-increasing responsibility over ever-increasing numbers of people and projects while not losing control of the situation? How structured are their meetings? How do they resolve conflicts among employees? How do they get others to "buy in" to their plans?