The New General Manager's
Performance
Cockpit
"Systems Based Management Helps General Managers Pilot Companies To Achieve Career & Company Objectives, Outperform Competitors Consistently And Advance Their Careers."

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Christos Kartalis, Regional Manager, S.E, Europe, Israel, and Poland for PharmaSwiss and Author of The Performance
Cockpit dives deep into Systems Based Management through specific methodologies and examples:
- Prioritization of performance goals
- Key performance objectives
- Strategies for successful change
- Systems based management through examples
- Corporate culture
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Dear Executive,
Are you a general manager or do you plan to be one soon? Are you
frustrated because of the many challenges you face? Do you identify
with some of the questions below?
• Do you experience
so much pressure that you feel lost at times? Does it look like
everything is important and needs to be done by yesterday?
• Do people resist your ideas,
causing delays in the implementation of your key performance objectives?
• Do you feel confused and energy-drained at times by everything
you have to do in a limited amount of time?
• Are the various functions of your unit moving at different
speeds? Are some projects lagging behind while others are running
ahead of schedule?
• How can you accurately predict the sales from a new investment
idea? When do you stop investing in a low-performing project? Is
there such a thing as perfect balance in resource allocation?
If you identify with several of the above questions, you are not
alone.The challenges are not without an answer.

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In The Performance Cockpit,
Christos Kartalis shows you how to run a better company
by being a better manager. He gets to the soul of business
in this well-written, systems based, book. Once you
read it, you’ll have a built-in competitive advantage
because you’ll know truths your competitors may
never learn.
–Jay
Conrad Levinson, the Father of “guerilla marketing”;
author of the Guerilla Marketing series of books
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Help
is on the way with The Performance Cockpit
a book especially for managers
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The
Performance Cockpit contains strategies and
systems for convincing, motivating, and aligning individuals
and teams behind your strategy.
- It addresses the challenges you face.
- It takes complexity out of the job and guides you through beating the challenges.
- It provides you with the skills and tools necessary for a strong, long lasting, successful management career.
- and it helps you become "best in class."
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You Will be Able to:

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This
is a highly valuable gem of a book for new or “want-to-be”
managers. Its advice is to-the-point, practical, easily
understood and immediately usable. It should be the
first resource they turn to when handling day-to-day
managerial situations.
–
James A. Belasco Ph.D, Professor Emeritus, San Diego
State University; best selling author of Flight of
the Buffalo and Teaching the Elephant to Dance; successful
entrepreneur and consultant
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You’ll learn:
- The importance of corporate culture.
- The ins and outs of effective key performance goal setting.
- Effective business communication strategies.
- Time management and prioritization.
- Become an effective and efficient manager.
Would
you Like to be Best in Class and Stay There?
In this book, The
New General Manager’s Performance Cockpit, you
will learn how to become “best in class” and stay there.
The
Performance Cockpit is a systems-based approach to
success. The concepts contained are the important foundations of
good management practice, providing you extraordinary insight into
the pitfalls that general managers face and showing you how to avoid
them.
This book is not the same old song. You will find no jargon, no
pseudo-science, no strained bites, no general theories. Rather,
you will experience profound ideas and practical insights with ready-to-implement
methods.
This book clearly demonstrates
systems for bringing together the critical elements of any organization
– its people, strategies, and execution. The concepts discussed
include the important foundations of good management practice that
are often misunderstood, misinterpreted, or ignored, with consequent
damage.
Who
will benefit from this book?
The
Performance Cockpit is for all general managers and
aspiring executives who are genuinely concerned about adding values,
strength, sustainability, and good corporate governance to their
businesses.
It is for
all managers who are struggling to identify and
fix problems, and want to learn how to deliver results.
It shows
you how to transform concepts into winning strategies and produce
great and sustainable results.
The Performance Cockpit is a valuable
and practical guide, a must-read for anyone who cares about business.
You will Discover how
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To
become a systems master and how to be flexible, adaptable, and
expandable in applying these systems to various situations and
cultures.
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To
excel in the art of focus and to identify and prioritize what
really counts. In the process, you will learn how to avoid wasting
valuable time on routine matters and minor issues.
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To
stand out from the crowd and advance your career faster by consistently
outperforming your objectives and competitors and the rest of
your organization through understanding and acting on trends
sooner.
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Do You Want
the Experience of 30 Practicing General Managers?
The Performance
Cockpit contains ideas, concepts, systems, and notions
that have been developed through the proactive approaches of practicing
general managers who are still active in those roles.
It comes from 30 experienced, practicing general managers across
the world, across five different industries -- telecommunications,
banking, fast-moving consumer goods, healthcare, and logistics/distribution.
These gifted general managers have been in situations like the ones
you might be facing now and they have dealt with them. They give
you they practices and systems they have applied successfully across
geographies, cultures, and industries. They stop you from losing
time re-inventing the wheel.
Everything in this book
has been implemented, tried and tested, and proven to work.
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From personal experience, Christos demonstrates how you can take
complex strategic and operational challenges and distill
them into tangible points of execution that ultimately
drive success. There is no substitute for a track record.
Steve Walter
Vice President
IMS Health Consulting and Services, Asia Pacific |
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Why systems
offer a major competitive advantage for every successful general
manager
A recent Q and A with Jerome Hedan, aspiring general manager,
currently business unit head for a telecommunications company in
France.
Q. “Mr.Kartalis, Do systems help me align with company
objectives?”
A. “I firmly believe that systems provide more than help;
well-developed and implemented management systems align company
objectives and define performance measurements that can be tested
and compared.”
Q. "I've seen in your book that systems are a critical
link between theory and execution. Can you expand on this?”
A. “I like this seemingly innocent but very important point.
Systems provide a common corporate language and culture while they
simplify corporate, inter-unit, and inter-function communication.
Systems provide the necessary links between vision, strategy, and
execution. Leadership can “lead,” but it cannot achieve
major organizational success without sound systems. Systems alone
cannot do the job either without good leadership.”
Q. “Mr Kartalis, several companies seem to fail because their
processes are not well integrated or successful with people, the
human factor. How can systems help?"
A. “Critical question
indeed. Well established and deeply rooted systems create discipline;
discipline creates trust. Trust in business is not only a personal
thing. For trust to be long-lived it needs to be integrated into
policies, processes, and systems."
Q. "I'd like to move to the top quicker than others.
I believe I have the mindset and capabilities for it. What can systems
do for me?"
A. “Jerome, systems
can maximize your career potential. If you are good, with systems
you can become very good, If you are very good, with systems you
are going to become great.
What do you think? Are you ready for the challenge”
Jerome: “Yes. I know that there will be obstacles, but
I am confident that with the roadmap you are proposing I will succeed,
faster than others, consistently!
Are you ready to achieve
your career and management objectives and outperform your competitors consistently?

Regards,

Christos Kartalis
General Manager and Author of The Performance
Cockpit
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I know how much time, effort, stress, and
investment goes into management. I understand the rising expectations
by others around us – management, family, peer groups.
You want
to stand out, to differ. And this difference comes from sustainable,
high level, achievement through the right blend of management strategies,
people and implementation of company objectives.
In The
Performance Cockpit you will discover how to become a great manager and meet company objectives. I
have been developing and using the concepts of systems based management shared in this book. These management systems have created a competitive advantage for my company
and my career for the past 12 years across
4 continents. Thirty top managers
have contributed their experiences and are sharing their strategies for successfull change and for obtaining key performance objectives. |
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