The 2R Manager will make you a better manager immediately. It offers specific advice tailored to each individual's current management style. You will take some self-surveys, see the results, and learn the impact you now have on those you manage. You'll learn what changes you must make and how to make them.
Managers have naturally either a relating or a requiring style. Those who naturally require are weaker at relating sometimes much weaker and vice versa. The best managers possess the ability to do both well and know when to choose one over the other.
Most managers miss opportunities. Some try to be their employee's friend when they need to be setting priorities and deadlines. Others, thinking they have the answers, miss getting new ideas and destroy their employees' motivation. Having the ability to relate and require is fundamental for effective managing.
Whether you want to improve how you now manage people or create a management-training alternative that can help reduce time and costs, you will find what you're looking for in The 2R Manager.
Industry Reviews
"The professional services firm is the best possible laboratory forunderstanding the concepts of relating and requiring. Because suchfirms are filled with high-talent individuals, a tilt towards onestyle vs. the other would fail. Peter Friedes hit the perfectbalance at Hewitt Associates¾and this book provides a greatservice in conveying to others how that balance can (and must) beachieved in high performing organizations." --Leo F. Mullin,chairman and CEO, Delta Air Lines
"As a coach and trainer for thousands of managers, I find the 2Rapproach to be one of the most exciting new ideas around. This bookis guaranteed to provide insights to managers of all ages andexperience levels." --Lynn Trautmann, cofounder, CollaboraConsulting Group, a training consulting firm
"When the former CEO of a highly successful organization writesa book about people management fundamentals, it's noaccident&neither is effective leadership at any level. The 2RManager provides managers personalized roadmaps to success; and fornew managers it's a good first look at what really counts inleading others. Not a bad payback for an easy read." --RandyMacDonald, senior vice president, human resources, IBMCorporation