The 27 Challenges Managers Face
Step-by-Step Solutions to (Nearly) All of Your Management Problems
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For more than twenty years, management expert Bruce Tulgan has been asking, What are the most difficult challenges you face when it comes to managing people? Regardless of industry or job title, managers cite the same core issues 27 recurring challenges: the superstar whom the manager is afraid of losing, the slacker whom the manager cannot figure out how to motivate, the one with an attitude problem, and the two who cannot get along, to name just a few. It turns out that when things are going wrong in a management relationship, the common denominator is almost always unstructured, low substance, hit-or-miss communication. The real problem is that most managers are managing on autopilot without even realizing it until something goes wrong. And if you are managing on autopilot, then something almost always does.
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