Managing in the Discomfort Zone Dealing with Uncomfortable and Embarrassing Management Situations

The logical successor to the One-Minute Manager, this book identifies key results areas and shows how to focus on them, avoid delay or inaction and achieve your goals. The book filled with practical tips on how to be successful and also highlights the key behaviors traps to avoid. You'll greatly enjoy the short quotations that are highlighted from famous persons to convey key learning points in a memorable and amusing way. This book highlights an opportunity. It reviews a way of positively transforming and enhancing your performance virtually at a stroke. It focuses on approaches to those key things that should be done, and which are of a nature that will make overall success more likely. The book examines some of the reasons why opportunities can be missed and highlights an approach that can change your practice in a way that affects many different situations positively. Many managers try to avoid situations that are difficult. Why is effective action so often difficult to take? Too often, managers and others find themselves in the 'discomfort zone' with no chance of avoiding involvement and every wish to steer clear of the unpleasantness. This book faces these difficulties head-on and offers a wealth of excellent advice about reducing the discomfort, taking the right action and increasing the result. To be a successful manager, you need to work efficiently, productively, effectively and often creatively. The key is to recognize the problem of inaction or avoidance, and to put you in the discomfort zone on a regular basis. This book will immediately help you to become a better manager, and you'll enjoy the reading every step of the way.