Managing More with Less

Joanna Howard works with individual and organisations in the areas of organisational transitions and personal self-development. She is also lecturer and set adviser with Sheffield Business School on their MSc in Managing Change. She worked until 1996 at Roffey Park Management Institute, on corporate programmes, as Programme Director on the MBA, and as Director or Research initiating research into emerging challenges such as the management of part-time workers, managing creative groups, and understanding diversity. She has an ongoing interest in ways of thinking and learning that make sense in today's business and social world. Earlier in her life she lived in Nigeria, Fiji and Sudan. She now lives in London and has three grown-up children.

• Chapter 1 Thinking skills – unclutter your thinking; Chapter 2 Using project management thinking to increase your effectiveness; Chapter 3 Prioritising intelligently realistically and proactively; Chapter 4 Influencing without authority; Chapter 5 Managing with more differences and less problems; Chapter 6 Understanding your relationship with time; Chapter 7 Looking after yourself – your greatest asset; Chapter 8 Developing your potential; Chapter 9 You as part of the system; Chapter 10 In conclusion;