About the book
Principles of Management by Harvard Business School professor D. Quinn Mills offers practical guidance for managers looking to build essential general management skills and competencies within today's complex organizations.

Dr. Mills outlines tactics and techniques for effective and ethical management, drawing and highlighting the key distinctions between the skills needed for management and those called for by leadership in an organization. The book covers modern management, managing people and teams, planning and control, strategy, managing change, decision-making, organizational systems and how to manage within them, and management techniques for the 21st century.

Principles of Management addresses several key questions that managers face: How can they be more effective? What managerial styles work best? How can managers empower those who they direct? Principles of Management shares years of experience and expertise in a readily accessible framework, with a focus on the human side of management.

About the author
D. Quinn Mills is the Alfred J. Weatherhead, Jr. Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He consults with major corporations and teaches at Harvard on subjects of leadership, strategy, and financial investments. Mills had taught at MIT's Sloan School of Management between 1968 and 1975; he is a Fellow of The National Academy of Human Resources and a member of the Panel of Thought Leaders of the Peter Drucker Foundation.

Dr. Mills earned his MA and Ph.D. from Harvard, both in economics, and received his undergraduate degree from Ohio Wesleyan University.

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