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Management Doesn't Have To Mean Burnout

Practical strategies for managers who want to lead well, stay in control, and build a career on their own terms—with less pressure, and without playing at office politics.

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Move Your Needle

Value

Grow Your Part Of The Business

The ability to create value is a sure fire way to get on in any business. Most roles present the opportunity. You just have to know how to go about it.

Career

Improve Your Prospects

You work for yourself, whoever pays your salary. If you look at life this way, you’ll find this newsletter more than helpful to your career and growth.

Mind

Strengthen Your Resilience

Being quietly good doesn’t mean lacking ambition. On the contrary, you back up your aspirations with plans and a determination both to learn and to do things thoroughly.

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible

St Francis of Assisi

What should we stop doing?

Peter Drucker, Management Thinker, Originator of “Organised Abandonment

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

Sun Tzu, (544 BC) Chinese General, Author of The Art Of War