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The Art of Managing People

te name" (p. 14) might have been used for the same activity. But within that subhead is contained a fairly specific method for enhancing the likelihood that a manager can be effective in balancing projects and personalities. The book is organized around the principle that if a manager accounts for six ground rules, whether in respect of organization in general or project/product in particular, then effectiveness and goodwill are more likely to be maintained. The ground rules are as follows: modeling (manipulation by behavioral example), giving feedback (praise for good work in addition to criticism for bad, information about competition), confronting (correcting mistakes), valuing others (treating people with respect), setting high expectations (i.e., not too-low expectations that may limit performance), and positive stroking (personal praise). All of this may seem self-evident common sense, and of course it is. The utility of The Art of Managing People is that it organizes common sense in a way that is meant to inure to the benefit of the organization, the project, and the people implementing it.

The fact that The Art of Managing People is a guide to interactive management implies that a manager will be obliged to become accustomed not only to projecting and enacting a certain managerial style but also to absorbing and responding creatively to a whole range of personality types among the corps of workers being managed. On the theory that no two individuals are likely to respond identically to a single message, the authors describe various learning, behavior, decision-making, and transactional (transpersonal) styles. Just as the changing marketplace obliges organizations to be flexible enough to respond to innovation, so does the fact that individuals, whose abilities, life experiences, and education are always unique (p. 21), learn and respond differently to the wash of experience, including the unexpected problems that experience p...

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