Managing a team
Reveal the Super Manager within You
Simple, precise and instructive. Everything you need to know, quickly. A book that can be read over and over again as your management experience evolves.
Jean-Marc Peremarti, Director of the Master Science 2 Program at INSEEC Bordeaux and Management Consultant
An excellent work that I reread regularly to verify that I am headed in the right direction. Each theme is approached as a recipe, step by step. This enables you to structure your managerial approach and avoid blunders and clumsiness. For example: how to communicate better during one-on-one meetings, how to lead a team, how to delegate or even how to set an objective. No useless theory, only that which is concrete and directly applicable in the day to day. These recipes are also accompanied by tests and questionnaires so you can self-evaluate and determine your position. What is more, the book demonstrates a clarity and enjoyable readability that further facilitates taking it up. I strongly recommend it to those who need to manage their teams, both beginners and experts.
Emmanuel Tahon, Teamleader ICT Operations Process & Tools at Infrabel
More than just an umpteenth management guide, this book is intelligent, comprehensive and highly practical, taking into account all the dimensions of management with a particular attention to pleasure at work. I appreciate the many self-evaluation questionnaires to measure team performance. Keep this book close at hand for its clear and precise methods!
Chrystèle Verfaille, HR Internal Digital Communications at BNP Paribas
Though it may come as a surprise, there are still useful things to be said about Management.
Olivier Zara meets the challenge perfectly with this book, opening with the irrefutable observation that regarding most management actions, the manager would be better off doing a 180° on what he or she would naturally do, and thus acting “unnaturally.”
Within the pages of this book unfold 19 practical cases for managers, using a remarkable skill for synthesis and simplicity. It is evident that the author worked hard to make each and every instant of this book clear and straightforward for readers. The fruits of his labor is a book that is concrete, factual and ready-to-use.
Didier De Greef, Management Consultant at Erudis Consulting
One would think with all of the books about management and leadership, that all has been said. Olivier continues to surprise, with this his 5th book, engaging the reader to think the opposite about management than they normally would. Olivier’s approach is not only practical and operational, something sorely missing with many methodologies, but also humorous and easy to read. Integrate this with his ability to see things in a different light, you too might become an “unnatural manager”.
Michael S. Salone, CEO at 3-6TY - Previously Vice President Alstom University at Alstom.
Olivier Zara is one of a kind in management consulting. As HR Director, I had the opportunity to bring him in to work with my company's senior leadership and all its managers. The methods he offers are innovative and always grounded in employees' day-to-day experience. He has a gift for helping a group develop a shared language. His approach helps sustain three essential ingredients for business growth: trust, purpose & autonomy.
Arnaud Chevalier, HR & Management Consultant – Former HR Director at Chantiers Modernes (Vinci Construction France Group)
While managers remain focused on acquiring and assessing skills, it is, paradoxically, interpersonal qualities that are essential to professional effectiveness. Don't teams give their best when relationships are thriving?
With Olivier Zara, management is practical: no woolly theories or moralizing lectures. You will soon be won over by his insightful approach to achieving success, with solutions accessible to everyone and a touch of humor that helps take the drama out of even the most intractable situations.
Read it and put it into practice without delay, so you don't miss what really matters!
Frédérique Rousseau, Consultant in Brand Development and International Project Management
With humor, Olivier Zara invites managers to explore paths they would not naturally take and shows them how easily they can make those approaches their own. Here is an accessible, stimulating and pragmatic guide that helps managers become more agile every day and gives them the confidence to dare to be DIFFERENT.
Maëlys de Chiffreville, Coach and Facilitator at Arthur Hunt Consulting
Through paradoxical management, Olivier has shown the way for 21st-century leaders. The key to financial performance lies in human performance, which stems from successfully reconciling collective and individual expectations. In this new book, he explains in simple terms how managers and leaders can break away from the well-worn paths that create daily tensions and conflicts.
Jean-Claude Dussaucy, Management Consultant – Former Major General in the French Armed Forces Commissariat