15 Skills of an Effective Manager: What You Need to Do Every Day to Achieve Outstanding Results

Vladimir Mozhenkov’s new book is a practical guide by the CEO and owner of a business with 30 years of experience—recognized as one of the best managers at Audi. It shows how to develop your “productivity gene”: the managerial DNA that helps a leader move to the next level and, together with the leader, propel the company forward. At its core is the author’s system of daily rituals—working with numbers, priorities, and the team—along with managing energy and resources.

Most managers, directors, and CEOs (company founders) really work a lot. But truly results-driven people are few. Meetings, “fires,” operational routines, and dozens of decisions every day create heavy involvement, yet on their own they don’t produce stable growth. The key is how the leader structures and lives their workday.

Vladimir Mozhenkov is one of Europe’s strongest Audi managers—a practitioner who has launched and developed 10 enterprises and is the author of the bestseller “The CEO Gene.” He demonstrates from personal experience: the effectiveness of the first person is the company’s main asset and the engine of its development.

This book offers a system that increases the leader’s personal effectiveness and directly reflects in profitability, manageability, and reduced chaos. Inside you’ll find the author’s experience, assignments, and practical tools:
• Management dashboard of key metrics
• A model for analyzing 100+ metrics every morning
• The “Traffic Light” system for key performance indicators (KPI)
• A weekly model of management meetings (by day of the week)
• The leader’s personal schedule
• A system of “power questions” for management
• Time and loss diagnostics

You’ll be able to find your productivity peaks, rebuild your day-and-week schedule, quickly identify time leaks, define your own key performance indicators (KPI), and build a priority system. All methods are adapted to the realities of business in the CIS. You can implement them gradually—without stopping your current work.

“My management style,” Vladimir Nikolayevich writes, “gave such an efficiency level (coefficient of useful effort) that, as I feel, since the early 2000s I have doubled my personal productivity every year. And it affected everyone: each employee generated a million dollars in revenue per year. I applied this method when the company had 22 people, and in one year we reached 22 million. Then we had 50 employees, then 100, 150, 200, 250… And each employee remained effective.”