This is another in the 'in Ninety Minutes' series, which offers the reader a comprehensive but easily read and easily digestible text, covering a specific topic in an hour and a half of study. It is still the case in many organisations that managers are selected primarily for their knowledge of the main productive process in which the business is involved. Whatever else is required in the appointment is often overlooked - this results in good technical people having to face a raft of new responsibil-ities of which they have little or no knowledge. This excellent book is also a self-managed personal development programme which encourages people to become adept in the process of Active Learning - learning-by-doing, the same principles used when learning to ride a bicycle or drive a car. By working through a series of four Active Learning modules, the reader will learn to become a better manager and use techniques immediately within the operational requirements of the job. The great joy of this method is that huge improvements are possible while not losing working time with off-the-job training.

技術者としての卓越性が、必ずしも組織の舵取りを約束しない。本作が鋭く切り込むのは、現場のプロが直面する「管理」という未知の荒波への処方箋です。単なる指針を超え、個の成長を説くアラン・スコットの筆致は、理論の重厚さと実践の軽やかさを高次元で融合させています。 九十分という濃密な時間の中で、読者は自転車を乗りこなすような身体感覚で学びを血肉に変えていきます。机上の空論を排し、実務をそのまま自己変革の舞台へと変貌させるその哲学は、多忙な現代人への慈愛に満ちた激励です。現場に生きる人々の魂を揺さぶり、明日への活力を与える至極の指南書と言えるでしょう。