<DIV><B>The Essence of Managing</B><BR><BR>Henry Mintzberg appreciates that managers are busy people. So he has taken his classic book Managing, done some updating, and distilled its essence into a lean 176 pages of text.<BR><BR>The essence of the book remains the same: what Mintzberg learned from observing twenty-nine managers in settings ranging from a refugee camp to a symphony orchestra. Simply Managing considers the intense dynamics of this job as well as its inescapable conundrums, for example:<BR><BR>• How is anyone supposed to think, let alone think ahead, in this frenetic job?<BR>• Are leaders really more important than managers?<BR>• Where has all the judgment gone?<BR>• Is email destroying management practice?<BR>• How can managers connect when their job disconnects them from what they are managing?<BR><BR>If you read only one book about managing, this should be it!</div>