The Essential Manager will help managers thrive in an ever-evolving workplace, Many managers are poorly equipped to succeed in the workplace because their knowledge base is too narrow and the environment they must operate in is becoming too complex. They are fed insights and facts on ever-narrow topics at work through business publications and often at universities. Their world is becoming so complex that they need to broaden their appreciation for how business is evolving in ways that are not usually considered. The primary objective of this book is to make readers-specifically managers-aware of the critical features of the evolving workplace in which they must function. A second objective is to define many of the behavioral attributes managers need to thrive in the evolving environment described in the book. Some other important objectives that will optimize the role of managers in the present and future workplaces are included, such as: Discussing the evolution of management as a profession over the past two decades and how it continues to evolve, Presenting a new management style and making recommendations for what today's managers must know and how they should work, Relying on history and observations of current trends in order to describe the context in which we work and the obvious and sometimes not-so obvious implications, making recommendations on how management should function, Offering ways to think about your role as a manager so that you can optimize your effectiveness in what many consider to be rather turbulent and uncertain changes in the profession of management, The author utilizes his breadth of managerial experience to define the needs of the current and future workplaces that are constantly reshaping due to economic globalization, and the cumulative effects of the infusion of digital technologies and telecommunications. Book jacket.