Management: An Integrated Approach

As tomorrow's manager, you will be confronted with challenges and opportunities that are more dynamic and complex than ever before. MANAGEMENT: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH, by award-winning instructors and prominent Harvard business experts, teaches you how to think like a successful manager and effective leader. This second edition clearly demonstrates the interconnectivity between three facets of management: strategic positioning, organizational design, and individual leadership. You learn the importance of harnessing technological advances, managing and leading a dispersed and diverse workforce, anticipating and reacting to constant competitive and geopolitical change and uncertainty, competing on a global scale, and operating in a socially responsible and accountable manner. Clear concepts directly relate to how today's organizations operate, while self-reflection opportunities help you evaluate personal leadership abilities and skill-building practice equips you for leadership success. You master management principles from a tangible, integrated, and current perspective as you learn to visualize how strategy informs leadership and how leaders influence strategic positioning and, ultimately, manage performance. Let MANAGEMENT: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH, 2E prepare you for leadership success as this unique book answers the key question: How are leaders successfully managing competitive companies in the 21st Century?