Demonstrates how you can develop yourself through the actual experience of managing. This book shows: how you can use your practical experience as a self-contained means to develop yourself; how your own projects can develop your competence in both leadership and management; and, how to manage your external actions and internal thought processes. 'ideal core reference book for any action-learning management development programme...provides an excellent summary of current thinking about the existing role of the manager.'Action Learning News 1994'a treasure trove...I welcome a book that brings together in a coherent whole a mass of related and relevant ideas.'Action Learning News, 1994