The Talented Manager

1. Introduction
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2. A walk in the woods
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3. Aberrant self-promotion at work
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4. All the questions and all the answers
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5. Appraisal systems
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6. Beware of creatives
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7. Blamestorming
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8. Career success
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9. The catch-phrase technique
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10. Change
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11. Charlatan detection
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12. Child support
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13. The content of job advertisements
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14. Could do better
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15. The dangers of forecasting
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16. Different perspectives
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17. Does coaching work?
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18. The drive for money
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19. The emotional contract at work
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20. Esthetics at work
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21. Evidence at work
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22. Expansion
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23. Faking it
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24. Face-ism and shape-ism at work
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25. Food at work
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26. Gender and job satisfaction
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27. Gossip is good for you
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28. Hating HR
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29. How management style leads directly to profit and loss
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30. The hyper-moral obsessive
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31. Improving references
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32. Incentive schemes
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33. Inspirational teachers
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34. Interview techniques
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35. The leader profit chain
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36. The legacy problem
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37. Lie detectors
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38. Loafers, suckers and free-riders
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39. Market research
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40. Mentoring at work
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41. Money as a motivator
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42. The narcissistic manager
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43. Nutters at work
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44. The obsolescent CEO
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45. Peanuts and monkeys
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46. Power and status in organizations
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47. Processes, profit and people
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48. Protecting vulnerable customers
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49. Quant Jocks and qual Jills
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50. Recognition programs that don’t work
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51. Religion at work
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52. Resilience and hardiness
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53. Resistance to change
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54. The scientific understanding of the public
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55. Seven lessons for appraisal
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56. Showing off the CEO
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57. Smarts
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58. Spirituality at work
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59. Striving for power
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60. Surveillance at work
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61. Taking care and taking charge
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62. Taking offense
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63. To do a Ph.D.
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64. What is conscientiousness?
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65. Whistle-blowing at work
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66. Wit at work
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67. The work ethic
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68. Writing as therapy
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69. Writing your own obituary
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Keywords: Business and Management, Business Strategy/Leadership, Management, Human Resource Management, Innovation/Technology Management, Corporate Communication/Public Relations, Business Ethics