On the High Wire or Forestry Handbook

On the High Wire: How to Survive Being Promoted

Author: Robert W Gunn

You've just been promoted and find yourself questioning your ability to pull off the new job. Now what? Virtually every leader recalls that "make or break" promotion when success depends on accessing inner capacities that lie just beyond prior experience. Taking on new challenges and responsibilities as a manager can be one of the most exhilarating and rewarding transitions in a businessperson's career. It can also be fraught with stress, self-doubt, isolation, and frustration. Bob Gunn and Betsy Gullickson draw on decades of executive coaching and human resource consulting experience to characterize the process of management promotion as walking the high wire-venturing into the unknown without a safety net. In this highly accessible guide, Gunn and Gullickson address the challenges and opportunities head-on and offer specific strategies and tactics for navigating the transition into leadership, delegation, conflict management, motivation, project management, and problem solving. Featuring thought-provoking questions and a listing of helpful resources, On the High Wire will engage and inspire new managers to become even more creative and effective leaders.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Preface : authors' perspectives
	Introduction : stepping into the unknown	1
	First precept : masterful managers artfully balance doing and being
1	Grace in change	11
2	The productivity paradox	20
3	Creativity and strategy	30
4	Better decisions	41
5	Letting go to get ahead	49
	Second precept : strong connections begin with respect for separate thinking
6	Job one - setting the right tone	63
7	Sales and meetings	73
8	Teams - working as one	82
9	Managing conflict	92
10	Employee relations	100
	Third precept : the calmer you become, the more powerful you become - and the more you can achieve
11	Focus and clarity	109
12	The antidote to stress	117
13	Measuring up	127
14	Wellspring	135
	Afterword : why lead?	141

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Forestry Handbook

Author: Karl F Wenger

A revised and reorganized practical reference for the working field forester, incorporating the latest information and new, improved methods in such critical areas as U.S. forest law and policy, forest taxation, cost accounting and accomplishment reporting, pesticide and environmental aspects, safety, and public involvement procedures.