Against the grain : developing your own management ideas

This is a guide to recognizing your own philosophy and ideas of management, using a range of self-development methods.

It cultivates a healthy scepticism for accepted management theories and provides an evaluation of new management ideas and demonstrates how to customise them to suit your own needs.

This is a topical theme for managers when organizations are encouraging self-development programmes through a combination of academic study, open learning, training programmes, mentoring and vocational qualifications.