The Type B Manager: Leading Successfully in a Type A World

About this book

In The Type B Manager Victor Lipman offers a unique lens through which to view the challenging problems of management. While management has long been considered the realm of Type A individualshard-driving competitive high achieversall too often these high-intensity traits arent effective when it comes to motivating your employees. Many characteristics of Type B individualsbeing more relaxed less competitive more reflective slower to angercan be considered people skills that better influence motivation and productivity. And successful management after all is the practice of accomplishing work through other people. In a business landscape where 70 percent of employees are disengaged and not working at full productive capacity Lipman focuses on practical tactical aspects of management viewed through a Type B lens including: Motivating and developing employees Handling conflict and Engendering trust and respect He examines specific skills behaviors and situations where a Type B mindset is advantageous and suggests ways that self-described Type A managers can boost their effectiveness by adopting Type B approachesand vice versa.