critical thinking, and communication, pulling ideas from a wide variety of knowledge areas. Managing the Gray Areas explores typical challenges that many leaders of people, projects and organizations struggle with, and offers a set of guidelines, principles, and tools that can help navigate these murky waters. Challenges and issues covered in this essential guide include: - Ensuring accountability without micromanagement - Implementing the right level of internal processes - Creating positive images for organizations, teams and products - Balancing individual needs with organizational goals - Communicating with simplicity and context - Assembling teams and team makeup - Creating flexible, yet integrated organizations - And more! How we address these difficult choices will determine the feel of our organization as a whole as well as how people interact, how work gets done, and ultimately the strategies of both our present and our future. If you believe that true leadership is about understanding and managing complexities instead of taking black and white approaches to problems, you need this book!

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