Micromanagement is one of the most widely condemned managerial sins, and one of the most common employee complaints. It contributes to low morale, high turnover, inefficiency, instability, and lack of continuity in an organization. Being perceived as a micromanager can also have significant negative ramifications on your career.

But Harry Chambers proves that micromanagement can be identified and resisted—both by those who (often unknowingly) inflict it and by those who are its victims.

Chambers details the defining traits of micromanagers, and provides a Micromanagement Potential Indicator (MPI) test to help you evaluate whether (and to what extent) you might be a micromanager. He provides real-world examples of micromanagement in action, analysis of the damage it does, and advice on what to do about it—whether you're the victim or the perpetrator. He offers detailed, field-tested strategies that will eliminate the damage that over-controlling behavior causes and increase creativity, risk-taking, productivity, and initiative in any organization.

By the author of the bestselling Bad Attitude Survival Guide (more than 40,000 copies sold), named one of the top business books of 1998 by Executive Book Summaries Everyone thinks they know what micromanagement is, but this book presents a specific, detailed definition illustrated with concrete examples Offers successful strategies for overcoming your own micromanaging behavior and for responding when you are being micromanaged Micromanagement is one of the most widely condemned managerial sins, and one of the most common employee complaints. It results in significant direct, indirect, and hidden costs to organizations, contributing to low morale, high turnover, inefficiency, instability, and lack of continuity. And being perceived as a micromanager can have a significant negative impact on your career. But what, precisely, is micromanagement? More importantly, what can be done about it? In My Way or the Highway, Harry Chambers proves that micromanagement can be objectively identified and successfully resisted, both by those who (often unknowingly) inflict it and by those who are its victims. In an informal, entertaining style Chambers describes five specific defining traits of micromanagers: placing their own self interest above everything else; controlling and manipulating time; attempting to determine exactly how everything must be done; requiring elaborate approval processes; and establishing dysfunctional monitoring and reporting requirements. He even provides a Micromanagement Potential Indicator test so you can see whether (and to what extent) you might be a micromanager. He then devotes a chapter to each trait, providing real-world examples of the trait in action and an analysis of the damage it does. But this is not just a book of diagnosis-Chambers provides treatment as well. He devotes several chapters how to respond if you are the micromanagee (a victim of micromanagement), how to eliminate your own micromanaging behaviors, and what to do if you have to manage a micromanager. Avoiding micromanagement should be a major goal of every manager, would-be manager, team member, or collaborative peer. My Way or the Highway offers detailed, actionable, field-tested strategies that will eliminate the damage that overcontrolling behavior causes and increase creativity, risk-taking, productivity, and initiative in any organization.

Get the right directions for federal travel!
Don't get lost in the tangled web of rules and regulations governing federal travel. Make sure you have the one guide that will put you on the road to being a knowledgeable and compliant government traveler— Navigating Federal Travel: A Q & A Roadmap.
This essential reference is geared not only to government travelers and those authorizing and approving travel, but also to those who provide travel management services to government agencies. The guide is organized in question-and-answer format, similar to the Federal Travel Regulation (FTR), and is presented to be readily accessible and informative.
The information is based on the author's years of experience as a federal travel manager as well as the FTR, Government Accountability Office and Civilian Board of Contract Appeals decisions, and pertinent legislation and mandates. As a supplement to the FTR, the guide includes examples of actual and potential situations the traveler may encounter before, during, and after approval of authorized travel.
The book offers clear and concise information on:
• How to determine the need for travel
• How travel is authorized and by whom
• How the employee pays for expenses incurred in performing official travel
• How the employee is reimbursed for authorized travel and travel-related expenses.
Navigating Federal Travel also includes coverage of best practices for the Agency/Organization Program Coordinator (A/OPC), who is responsible for managing the government travel charge card program. Appendices offer helpful websites and resources as well as special information for relocation.
Get the right directions and follow the rules with Navigating Federal Travel: A Q & A Roadmap.

Get the right directions for federal travel!
Don't get lost in the tangled web of rules and regulations governing federal travel. Make sure you have the one guide that will put you on the road to being a knowledgeable and compliant government traveler— Navigating Federal Travel: A Q & A Roadmap.
This essential reference is geared not only to government travelers and those authorizing and approving travel, but also to those who provide travel management services to government agencies. The guide is organized in question-and-answer format, similar to the Federal Travel Regulation (FTR), and is presented to be readily accessible and informative.
The information is based on the author's years of experience as a federal travel manager as well as the FTR, Government Accountability Office and Civilian Board of Contract Appeals decisions, and pertinent legislation and mandates. As a supplement to the FTR, the guide includes examples of actual and potential situations the traveler may encounter before, during, and after approval of authorized travel.
The book offers clear and concise information on:
• How to determine the need for travel
• How travel is authorized and by whom
• How the employee pays for expenses incurred in performing official travel
• How the employee is reimbursed for authorized travel and travel-related expenses.
Navigating Federal Travel also includes coverage of best practices for the Agency/Organization Program Coordinator (A/OPC), who is responsible for managing the government travel charge card program. Appendices offer helpful websites and resources as well as special information for relocation.
Get the right directions and follow the rules with Navigating Federal Travel: A Q & A Roadmap.

The future is uncertain, and yet we must act. This groundbreaking framework helps leaders transform chaos into clarity, build organizational resilience, and create positive change in turbulent times.

The world we once described as volatile and uncertain has shifted into something far more chaotic: BANI, or brittle, anxious, nonlinear, and incomprehensible. In Navigating the Age of Chaos, Jamais Cascio, the originator of the visionary BANI framework, unpacks the tools and perspectives needed to navigate our increasingly turbulent era.

Joined by coauthors Bob Johansen and Angela F. Williams, Cascio provides real-world examples, practical strategies, and rich insights to help leaders, organizations, and individuals not just survive but thrive in the chaos. This book will help readers recognize, adapt to, and excel in a world changing with unprecedented speed and intensity.

Breaking down the BANI framework, readers will discover how to tackle each aspect of a BANI world:

• Brittle—Recognize fragility in systems and strategies to build resilience.
• Anxious—Address widespread anxiety with empathy and attentiveness.
• Nonlinear—Navigate unpredictable scenarios with adaptive, improvisational thinking.
• Incomprehensible—Find clarity in overwhelming complexity through webs of connection.
• Positive BANI—Reframe chaos into actionable opportunities for growth.

As a definitive guide to understanding and harnessing the power of the BANI framework, this book equips readers with the knowledge to reshape challenges into pathways for innovation and success.

The future is uncertain, and yet we must act. This groundbreaking framework helps leaders transform chaos into clarity, build organizational resilience, and create positive change in turbulent times.

The world we once described as volatile and uncertain has shifted into something far more chaotic: BANI, or brittle, anxious, nonlinear, and incomprehensible. In Navigating the Age of Chaos, Jamais Cascio, the originator of the visionary BANI framework, unpacks the tools and perspectives needed to navigate our increasingly turbulent era.

Joined by coauthors Bob Johansen and Angela F. Williams, Cascio provides real-world examples, practical strategies, and rich insights to help leaders, organizations, and individuals not just survive but thrive in the chaos. This book will help readers recognize, adapt to, and excel in a world changing with unprecedented speed and intensity.

Breaking down the BANI framework, readers will discover how to tackle each aspect of a BANI world:

• Brittle—Recognize fragility in systems and strategies to build resilience.
• Anxious—Address widespread anxiety with empathy and attentiveness.
• Nonlinear—Navigate unpredictable scenarios with adaptive, improvisational thinking.
• Incomprehensible—Find clarity in overwhelming complexity through webs of connection.
• Positive BANI—Reframe chaos into actionable opportunities for growth.

As a definitive guide to understanding and harnessing the power of the BANI framework, this book equips readers with the knowledge to reshape challenges into pathways for innovation and success.

The future is uncertain, and yet we must act. This groundbreaking framework helps leaders transform chaos into clarity, build organizational resilience, and create positive change in turbulent times.

The world we once described as volatile and uncertain has shifted into something far more chaotic: BANI, or brittle, anxious, nonlinear, and incomprehensible. In Navigating the Age of Chaos, Jamais Cascio, the originator of the visionary BANI framework, unpacks the tools and perspectives needed to navigate our increasingly turbulent era.

Joined by coauthors Bob Johansen and Angela F. Williams, Cascio provides real-world examples, practical strategies, and rich insights to help leaders, organizations, and individuals not just survive but thrive in the chaos. This book will help readers recognize, adapt to, and excel in a world changing with unprecedented speed and intensity.

Breaking down the BANI framework, readers will discover how to tackle each aspect of a BANI world:

• Brittle-Recognize fragility in systems and strategies to build resilience.
• Anxious-Address widespread anxiety with empathy and attentiveness.
• Nonlinear-Navigate unpredictable scenarios with adaptive, improvisational thinking.
• Incomprehensible-Find clarity in overwhelming complexity through webs of connection.
• Positive BANI-Reframe chaos into actionable opportunities for growth.

As a definitive guide to understanding and harnessing the power of the BANI framework, this book equips readers with the knowledge to reshape challenges into pathways for innovation and success.

World-record endurance athlete and professional leadership coach Jason Caldwell draws on his amazing experiences to show how anyone can build and lead teams that accomplish incredible things.

Thirty-five days, 14 hours, and 3 minutes. That's how long it took Jason Caldwell and the crew of the American Spirit to row 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean during the 2016 Talisker Whiskey Atlantic Challenge—or, as it's known to those who attempt it, “The World's Toughest Row.” They not only succeeded but set a world record.

This was an extraordinary team effort. And that's what this book is about. Caldwell transfers the hard-won lessons of his transatlantic adventure out of the ocean and into your office, showing how to build and lead teams that do what others say cannot be done and sustain that level of performance.

The thrilling details of Caldwell's quest to break the world's record deliver a “just-one-more-page” experience, during which you'll also learn lessons like 
 
• How to quit like a winner
• Why results aren't the measure of a high-performance team
• What four questions you should ask yourself before you set any goal
• How to harness the power of emotion-first leadership
• Why the best people aren't necessarily the right people for your team

This book is a distillation of Caldwell's worldwide speaking programs delivered to packed crowds at Fortune 500 companies and universities worldwide. It is the answer to a question he is constantly asked: How were you and your teams able to accomplish such seemingly impossible goals? And it's also a guidebook that can teach anyone how to do the same.

World-record endurance athlete and professional leadership coach Jason Caldwell draws on his amazing experiences to show how anyone can build and lead teams that accomplish incredible things.

Thirty-five days, 14 hours, and 3 minutes. That's how long it took Jason Caldwell and the crew of the American Spirit to row 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean during the 2016 Talisker Whiskey Atlantic Challenge—or, as it's known to those who attempt it, “The World's Toughest Row.” They not only succeeded but set a world record.

This was an extraordinary team effort. And that's what this book is about. Caldwell transfers the hard-won lessons of his transatlantic adventure out of the ocean and into your office, showing how to build and lead teams that do what others say cannot be done and sustain that level of performance.

The thrilling details of Caldwell's quest to break the world's record deliver a “just-one-more-page” experience, during which you'll also learn lessons like 
 
• How to quit like a winner
• Why results aren't the measure of a high-performance team
• What four questions you should ask yourself before you set any goal
• How to harness the power of emotion-first leadership
• Why the best people aren't necessarily the right people for your team

This book is a distillation of Caldwell's worldwide speaking programs delivered to packed crowds at Fortune 500 companies and universities worldwide. It is the answer to a question he is constantly asked: How were you and your teams able to accomplish such seemingly impossible goals? And it's also a guidebook that can teach anyone how to do the same.

World-record endurance athlete and professional leadership coach Jason Caldwell draws on his amazing experiences to show how anyone can build and lead teams that accomplish incredible things.

As an adventurer who undertakes incredible challenges, such as rowing across the Atlantic or crossing the Namib Desert on foot, Jason Caldwell noticed how much of a pivotal role mistakes made in his record-breaking pursuits. The path to an ambitious goal is never a straight line. When mistakes inevitably happen, they can open up new options and choices. This book relays the crucial questions to ask when faced with any setback:

1. Is the failure something I have control over?
2. Is my goal still possible?
3. Do I want to keep going?
4. Is there another way to my goal?
5. Am I better, tougher, or smarter for this?

Caldwell draws on his amazing experiences to illustrate how these questions have helped him in literally death-defying situations. This is the first book to build a powerful business and personal success method out of the riveting and transformative failures of a true adventurer.

Neal Whitten's Let's Talk! More No-Nonsense Advice for Project Success focuses on best project behaviors, by answering more than 700 insightful, personal, and sometimes sensitive questions on a broad range of topics from leadership, communication, and culture, to accountability, ethics, and conflict resolution. Following on the heels of Neal Whitten's No-Nonsense Advice for Successful Projects, this book offers more of the no-nonsense advice that has helped countless leaders and projects. This book is for those who aspire to become consistently effective leaders, project members, or employees and therefore become more valuable to their projects and organizations.

Neal Whitten's Let's Talk! More No-Nonsense Advice for Project Success focuses on best project behaviors, by answering more than 700 insightful, personal, and sometimes sensitive questions on a broad range of topics from leadership, communication, and culture, to accountability, ethics, and conflict resolution. Following on the heels of Neal Whitten's No-Nonsense Advice for Successful Projects, this book offers more of the no-nonsense advice that has helped countless leaders and projects. This book is for those who aspire to become consistently effective leaders, project members, or employees and therefore become more valuable to their projects and organizations.

Learn the Best Practices That Make the Difference Between Troubled Projects and Consistently Successful Projects

There's no better way to learn the nuts and bolts of a profession than by having a mentor at your side. But most project managers and leaders don't have that advantage — and that's why Neal Whitten wrote this book.
Having Neal Whitten's No-Nonsense Advice for Successful Projects on hand is like having a mentor to guide you at every turn in the road. Neal shows you how to avoid a painful learning curve with a set of best practices for leading consistently successful projects.
In this book, Neal distills his 30 years of experience into tips and strategies that are easy to learn and apply to your projects. These strategies will give you a decisive competitive edge in leading projects and working with stakeholders, clients, and team members.
Learn How to:
• Run your project like you'd run your own business
• Become a “benevolent dictator” for the most effective leadership
• Recognize and deal with professional immaturity
• Deal with difficult people
• Master behaviors that will make your team leaders' jobs easier and
benefit your own career
• Assess if you're too soft — and learn to make unpopular decisions
if they're necessary to project success
• Create a culture that fosters the success of your project
• Gain the respect of your team members
• Avoid making long-term project commitments
• Manage to your top three problems

Learn the Best Practices That Make the Difference Between Troubled Projects and Consistently Successful Projects

There's no better way to learn the nuts and bolts of a profession than by having a mentor at your side. But most project managers and leaders don't have that advantage — and that's why Neal Whitten wrote this book.
Having Neal Whitten's No-Nonsense Advice for Successful Projects on hand is like having a mentor to guide you at every turn in the road. Neal shows you how to avoid a painful learning curve with a set of best practices for leading consistently successful projects.
In this book, Neal distills his 30 years of experience into tips and strategies that are easy to learn and apply to your projects. These strategies will give you a decisive competitive edge in leading projects and working with stakeholders, clients, and team members.
Learn How to:
• Run your project like you'd run your own business
• Become a “benevolent dictator” for the most effective leadership
• Recognize and deal with professional immaturity
• Deal with difficult people
• Master behaviors that will make your team leaders' jobs easier and
benefit your own career
• Assess if you're too soft — and learn to make unpopular decisions
if they're necessary to project success
• Create a culture that fosters the success of your project
• Gain the respect of your team members
• Avoid making long-term project commitments
• Manage to your top three problems