The New Rules of Management

It's time to stop managing and start implementing. The New Rules of Management is about creating and implementing projects that truly matter, because even the best ideas, projects and objectives mean nothing until they are executed. In truth, most organisations aren't designed to successfully implement long-term projects, but successfully implementing the projects that matter is the key to long-term success. In this book, you'll learn how to successfully manage yourself, your teams, and your entire organisation to create and execute engaging, vital projects that people and teams care about. When you do implementation right success becomes a given—on the personal, team, and organisational levels. So if you want your business to succeed, it's time to implement the projects that truly matter. Start now, with The New Rules of Management.

• A management guide to building engagement and innovation in any organisation
• Written by a master business coach, mentor, entrepreneur, thought leader, and popular public speaker
• Ideal for business leaders and managers who want to take their organisations into the twenty-first century

About the Author vii

Acknowledgements ix

Introduction xi

1 Implementation in a nutshell 1

Part I: Personal 19

2 Personal: overview 21

3 Internal: mindset 27

4 Projects 49

5 Framework 61

6 Support 73

7 Accountability 83

Part II: Team 93

8 Team: overview 95

9 Internal: culture 103

10 Projects 117

11 Framework 123

12 Support 137

13 Accountability 143

Part III: Organisation 153

14 Organisation: overview 155

15 Internal: climate 163

16 Projects 177

17 Framework 185

18 Support 197

19 Accountability 207

Conclusion 217

Index 219

PETER COOK is passionate about helping people implement projects that matter. He is a master business coach, mentor, entrepreneur, best-selling author and a second-degree black belt in aikido. Peter has more than 15 years' experience as a consultant and business coach working with hundreds of businesses from one-person start-ups to some of the biggest companies in the world.

Peter Cook has nailed the one thing that separates the highly successful from the average. Projects that matter.
—MICHAEL PORT, author of Book Yourself Solid and Beyond Booked Solid

The key to success in business today isn't inspired leadership, brilliant marketing, efficient systems or great cultures—it's the implementation of projects that matter. Even the best ideas, projects and objectives mean nothing until they are executed.

In this guide to management in the 21st century, successful entrepreneur and international thought leader Peter Cook demonstrates that implementation is the lifeblood of innovation. It's the spirit that motivates individuals and teams and the fuel that drives productivity.

The New Rules of Management will show you how to:

• become an implementation expert and master projects that matter
• turn innovative ideas into profitable projects
• lead inspired, engaged teams that people want to be part of
• transform your personal productivity, success and fulfilment
• create an implementation culture within your organisation.

The game of management has changed and to win the game, we need to play by the new rules.