The Successful Manager by James Potter and Mike Kavanagh is an attempt to provide readers with a wide swath of practices and principles related to being, well, a successful manager and as the sub-title says, "of high performing teams". The book's swath or review is grounded in a framework simply put into an acronym labeled T.E.A.C.H.E.R. (perhaps clever and at least, memorable).
T.E.A.C.H.E.R. offers characteristics that the authors have concluded represent what comprises successful (strong, competent, great, outstanding) managers. And of course, just so you have a glimpse of the framework, the letters of T.E.A.C.H.E.R. are characteristics or behaviors: transparent, empathetic, adaptable, clear communicator, humble, empowering, and, responsive.
The first two chapters of The Successful Manager take a close look at each of these characteristics with a definition and some recommendations for applying these as a manager. The following twelve chapters offer a litany of approaches to effectively use the foundational characteristics toward creating and managing "effective" teams. So rather than being singularly prescriptive (although there is some of that) the authors have dug into the literature to identify and apply many management theories and practices that compliment their own foundational principles. No, the book is not a tutorial per se but there is much to discover and consider particularly for those who have had management duties thrust upon them and possibly for those who have risen-up the ranks to take-on management duties.
Do I think this is the be-all and end-all of management lessons? No, not really but if you are seeking to get down and hopefully apply the fundamentals, or at least this set of fundamentals, The Successful Manager is a great way to start. I would propose that newer managers within the same or from a number of organizations would be well served to have a multi-week study group where they get the theory and apply it to their own environments being assisted in their thinking by other members of the group. This is where The Successful Manager might prove itself as the most effective resource.
Bottom line, The Successful Manager could prove itself a helpful resource.
By the way, I was drawn to determine whether there is a gender-neutral word for manager and while there is a feminine form (manageress) it is generally considered by linguists that the word itself is gender-neutral - so manager it is. And, while you might say, what about supervisor, based on The Successful Manager, managers are far more complex with way deeper and wider demands than a supervisor. So again, manager it is.