The Chameleon Manager

Managers are faced with many conflicting demands and situations. Part of the "New Skills Portfolio" series, this book addresses the following questions: How can you be a generalist and a specialist? An individual expert and a 'connected' team player? Manage more people with less time and fewer resources and be entrepreneurial at the same time?

Today''s managers are faced with many conflicting demands and situations. This book provides practical ways of achieving the impossible:How can you be a generalist and a specialist?An individual expert and a ''connected'' team player?Manage more people with less time and fewer resources and be entrepreneurial at the same time? Complete with its own website, which gives further information and links to other sites. The New Skills Portfolio is a groundbreaking new series, published in association with the Industrial Society, which re-defines the core management skills managers and team leaders need to be competitive. Each title is action-focused blending 20th century management initiatives/trends with a new flexible skills portfolio.The Industrial Society is one of the largest public training providers in the UK. It has over 10,000 member organisations and promotes best practice through its publishing, consultancy, training and advisory services. For more information contact their website on www.indsoc.co.uk