Management: How to Manage, and Why Should I Care?

This is a practical and insightful book written to help people to appreciate the generally underestimated importance of management; and to improve their practice of what they are responsible for managing (their time, their lives, or other people, etc.). It is intended to bring the best of management theory to the man in the street, in bite size pieces, equipping him with the know-how and confidence necessary to excel and help others excel in life. Afterall, simplicity is the ultimate sophistication!

Consider for example a couple with 5 children: once those 5 children have attained the age of 20 the parents have been directly responsible for the management of 100 years of the lives of 5 people. Is that important? Might such a parent benefit from a little bit of theoretical help as they do their best to manage such a responsibility? You might ask what has this to do with business management? The answer is that most of the principles of management are generic and can be applied as well to family life as to a business as to a nation etc. This book aims to help any reader to improve their performance as a manager and as a result contribute to the betterment of the reader and those over whom the reader has managerial responsibility.  

Is success not a function of management and providence? One we can influence and one we can't. If so, then there a connection between success and management. What is it? How can we extract success from management? Read the book to find out …