Managing For Results

Managing for Results: Economic Tasks and Risk-taking Decisions is a guidebook for those in management position. The book is comprised of 14 chapters that are organized into three parts. The first part talks about understanding the business; this part covers business realities, revenues, resources, and prospects. Part II discusses the opportunities and needs in economic dimensions of a business. Part III covers the key decision, business strategies, and building up economic performance. The book will be useful to managers, entrepreneurs, and individuals who are exposed to a decision-making situation that has an economic implication.

Why getting results should be every nonprofit manager's first priority A nonprofit manager's fundamental job is to get results, sustained over time, rather than boost morale or promote staff development. This is a shift from the tenor of many management books, particularly in the nonprofit world. Managing to Change the World is designed to teach new and experienced nonprofit managers the fundamental skills of effective management, including: managing specific tasks and broader responsibilities; setting clear goals and holding people accountable to them; creating a results-oriented culture; hiring, developing, and retaining a staff of superstars. Offers nonprofit managers a clear guide to the most effective management skills Shows how to address performance problems, dismiss staffers who fall short, and the right way to exercising authority Gives guidance for managing time wisely and offers suggestions for staying in sync with your boss and managing up This important resource contains 41 resources and downloadable tools that can be implemented immediately.

Managing for Results: Economic Tasks and Risk-taking Decisions is a ""what to do"" book that covers the economic tasks that any business has to discharge for economic performance and economic results. The book organizes these tasks so that executives can perform them systematically, purposefully, with understanding, and with reasonable probability of accomplishment. The text also aims to develop a point of view, concepts, and approaches for finding what should be done and how to go about doing it. The book, which is divided into three parts, starts by discussing the business realities, analyzing the result areas of the entire business and relating them to resources, efforts, opportunities and expectations and cost stream and structure. The text also considers the business from the outside, its fundamental economic characteristics, performance capacity, and opportunities. Part II discusses the opportunities and needs in each of the major economic dimensions of a business. The last part presents the conversion of insights and decisions into purposeful performance. Key decisions, business strategies, and building economic performance into a business are considered in this part. The book concludes by projecting the book and its thesis on the individual executive and his commitment, and especially on the commitment of the top management. The text will be invaluable to entrepreneurs and business executives and students of business management/administration.

The Fortune 500 list, defined by size and volume, is the current measure of success in the corporate world. This timely book suggests instead a "Fortunate 500" list, based on the quality of service available to customers and the quality of life accessible to employees.

Managing for results : cutting-edge challenges facing government leaders in 2002 /John M. Kamensky and Mark A. Abramson --Corporate strategic planning in government : lessons from the United States Air Force /Colin Campbell --Challenge of developing cross-agency measures : a case study of the Office of National Drug Control Policy /Patrick J. Murphy and John Carnevale --Using evaluation to support performance management : a guide for federal executives /Kathryn E. Newcomer and Mary Ann Scheirer --Managing for outcomes : milestone contracting in Oklahoma /Peter Frumkin --Using performance data for accountability : the New York City Police Department's CompStat model of police management /Paul E. O'Connell --Potential of the Government Performance and Results Act as a tool to manage third-party government /David G. Frederickson.

"Supervision is arranged with an emphasis on inquiry learning, which raises penetrating questions, shows you the key concepts in a clear and concise manner, and follows up that material with a wide variety of exercises, applications, and margin notes ..." --BOOK COVER.