Down to Earth Management

About the Book

Down to Earth Management is a practical guide for first level managers to the skills it takes to be the BOSS. This guide is particularly useful for those young professionals especially women who have just taken on management responsibilities.

This guide is particularly useful for those young professionals who have just taken on the job as the new boss. Chapters cover topics from what to do the first day on the job through supervising, use of work plans,handling your own boss, working with lawyers, accountants and unions to polishing one's own talents to maximize effectiveness. The techniques are equally useful in commercial and non-commercial organizations.

When the technical professional becomes a manager he or she is faced with a task that is fundamentally different from what that person has done before. Drawing on more than sixty yeaars of experience at every management level from night shift foreman through profit center manager to manager of an overseas division with subsidiaries in every continent to Executive Vice President of a Fortune 500 company plus serving as trustee of several non-commercial enterprises, this book is a valuable resource for any manager.

About the Author

Robert Coquillette graduated from Harvard College with a B.S. in Chemistry magna cum laude. During his career he has "done it all" holding both line and staff positions ranging from night shift foreman to Executive Vice President and Director of a FORTUNE 500 company.