Reproduction Rights: Macek Management Checklist™

John F. Macek, a successful CEO for 17 years, used his CEO experience to create a summary of essential management skills. To succeed, companies must carefully monitor for cost, quality, efficiency, customer satisfaction, and marketing. However, understanding human motivation and human relations are as important to corporate success as planning and executing a sound business plan. Sustained corporate success requires recruiting personnel with the necessary skills, creating teamwork that builds on this expertise, and retaining the personnel who make up this critical team.

In manufacturing, personnel staffing an assembly line are assigned narrowly defined tasks that could be learned in a day or two. When they leave, they were easily replaced.

In the new knowledge economy, the rules of engagement have completely changed. Producing complex products and services calls for multiple layers of expertise that are brought together to create products and services well beyond the capacity of any one person.

Knowledge workers are accustomed to exercising judgment and working in teams in which they blend their skills in an atmosphere of mutual respect. Traditional command and control approaches used with unskilled laborers drive away the kinds of highly skilled professionals we need today. It can take months and years to build an effective work team. Turnover within a team always sets the process back while trust and relationships are rebuilt. This is time lost to productivity.

Today's managers must have far higher levels of sophistication. They must know how to build a team, motivate, and use wide-ranging expertise in ways that create a whole greater than the sum of its parts, a process known as synergy.

The Macek Management Checklist selects specifically for the kinds of managers needed in a knowledge economy. It excludes "strong" commanders in chief in favor of managers who are comfortable hearing different points of view, can identify and assimilate areas of validity, and through a process of brainstorming can develop new concepts and approaches. More than ever, modern managers must operate as partners, each recognizing the role they play in the organization's success or failure. They delight in creativity and are willing to go the extra mile to achieve success.

The Macek Management Checklist contains highly sophisticated content based on both experience and advanced behavioral sciences training. It took years to analyze the entire management spectrum and identify core skills every manager must have in varying degrees at any level. At the same time, it can be used without specialized training. Independent judgments made by prudent human beings can be consolidated to arrive at well-informed decisions.

What do I get from purchasing this Checklist?

Purchasing the Checklist is the beginning of a new way of doing business. It lays out principles that apply to every major function of an organization, ranging from hiring highly qualified personnel to laying the foundation for an organization's corporate culture.

You will receive:

  1. A CD containing the Checklist in both Word 2007 and pdf format with your license number imbedded. This confirms your right to use and reproduce this instrument.
  2. You will receive three hours of technical assistance via email or phone advising you on how to use the Macek Management Checklist for many applications such as:
    1. Hiring managers
    2. Evaluating managers
    3. Creating management development plans for existing managers
    4. Succession planning
    5. Self assessment by senior managers, and
    6. Establishing a positive organizational culture that achieves maximum results, high morale, high productivity, efficiency, better customer satisfaction, and a solid bottom line.
  3. You receive a copy of Successful Managers: Successful Organizations a management training and resource manual that provides detailed descriptions for implementation.

What the Checklist Accomplishes

  1. It assures that in recruiting management candidates every critical area is covered. Sometimes a highly skilled interviewee can gloss over serious deficits. Using group interviews and independent assessments of every skill assures that the final decision is based on a comprehensive picture of the candidate’s skills.
  2. It greatly increases the probability that the person you hire is a good fit for the position.
  3. It helps detect potentially serious flaws that can be easily glossed over.

What the Checklist is Not

The Checklist is not a psychological test. It is based on advanced knowledge of the behavioral sciences, but does not require professional training in its implementation.

Obtaining a Sample copy of the Macek Management Checklist™

To obtain a sample of the Checklist, email info@bosshandbooks.com to request a copy. You must first agree to the Licensing Conditions stated below before a copy is sent. This is much like the agreements computer software companies require to protect intellectual property. Upon receipt of an agreement signed by an authorized company official, a PDF sample copy will be emailed to you.

Conditions for Purchase.

  1. This instrument may be reproduced only by an organization licensed to use it for their exclusive purposes.
  2. Any instrument based on the Checklist must attribute the source material. Example: Based on Macek Management Checklist, license number xxxxxxx. Such attributions are necessary to protect proprietary intellectual property.
  3. Licenses may not be transferred or sold.
  4. The licensee affirms it is the sole user of this intellectual property and will not under any circumstances make this material available for illegal use by an unlicensed party.

How to purchase the Macek Management Checklist package

Email:

Email info@bosshandbooks.com with the following information:
  1. Name of company to which the license is to be issued.
  2. A purchase order number and address to which the PO is sent for processing.
As soon as payment is received, the materials will be promptly sent to you.

Regular mail:

Send a letter on company stationery indicating the name in which the license is issued. Include a check or purchase order. As soon as payment is received, the materials will be promptly sent to you.
Mail to:
John F. Macek LLC
2313 Morningside Drive
Janesville, WI 53546


Price: $2800 (plus 5.5% tax for organizations located in Wisconsin. If tax exempt, include your tax exemption ID number.)

Customer Rewards

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