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Managing people is fraught with challenges-even if you're a seasoned manager. Here's how to handle them.
If you read (or listen to) nothing else on managing people, listen to these ten articles (featuring 'Leadership That Gets Results,' by Daniel Goleman). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you maximize your employees' performance.
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People will inspire you to: tailor your management styles to fit your people; motivate with more responsibility, not more money; support first-time managers; build trust by soliciting input; teach smart people how to learn from failure; build high-performing teams; and manage your boss.
This collection of bestselling articles includes: featured article 'Leadership That Gets Results' by Daniel Goleman, 'One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees?,' 'The Set-Up-to-Fail Syndrome,' 'Saving Your Rookie Managers from Themselves,' 'What Great Managers Do,' 'Fair Process: Managing in the Knowledge Economy,' 'Teaching Smart People How to Learn,' 'How (Un)ethical Are You?,' 'The Discipline of Teams,' and 'Managing Your Boss.'
Powerful stories from the world's top CEOs to help prepare you for the hard decisions ahead.
The essays in How I Did It teach and inspire. Pulled directly from the pages of one of the most popular columns in Harvard Business Review, these essays offer firsthand accounts of the most difficult management challenges faced by the men and women who occupy the corner office. It's the next best thing to sitting down and talking face-to-face with these corporate leaders.
You'll hear from renowned global leaders including: Kevin Ryan, Gilt Groupe; Mindy Grossman, HSN; Kevin Plank, Under Armour; Daniel P. Amos, Aflac; Pramod Bhasin, Genpact; Eric Schmidt, Google; Ellen Kullman, DuPont; Patrizio Bertelli, Prada; Pierre Omidyar, Omidyar Network; Jorge Cauz, Encyclopaedia Brittanica; and Richard Gelfond, IMAX.
Let these potent stories of strategic thinking-and often bold and unconventional action-be your guide as you step into your own future as a leader.
Conducting performance reviews can be stressful. But these conversations are critical to your employees' development, allowing you to formally communicate with them about their accomplishments relative to their goals. Performance Reviews guides you through the basics. You'll learn to:
- Gather and analyze the right information
- Document your assessment
- Address performance problems
- Set challenging goals
Don't have much time? Get up to speed fast on the most essential business skills with HBR's 20-Minute Manager series. Whether you need a crash course or a brief refresher, each book in the series is a concise, practical primer that will help you brush up on a key management topic. Advice you can quickly listen to and apply, for ambitious professionals and aspiring executives-from the most trusted source in business.
Don't leave creativity up to the 'creatives' in your organization. Fostering creativity within your team can help your organization solve problems, create innovative products, break out into a new market, and even communicate and collaborate more effectively. Innovative Teams shows you how to:
- Create the right environment for inventive thinking
- Build a diverse team
- Generate a wide array of new ideas
- Manage disagreements
- Make sure your ideas actually get implemented
Don't have much time? Get up to speed fast on the most essential business skills with HBR's 20-Minute Manager series. Whether you need a crash course or a brief refresher, each book in the series is a concise, practical primer that will help you brush up on a key management topic. Advice you can quickly listen to and apply, for ambitious professionals and aspiring executives-from the most trusted source in business.
Timeless wisdom tailored for today through the guidance and insight of a new crop of young leaders in business, academia, the military and social enterprise as well as experienced leaders who are actively engaged in developing and coaching young professionals. This spin-off of the 2008 classic retains the enduring 5-question leadership framework of Peter Drucker while providing new perspectives for young leaders. By asking themselves, What is our Mission, Who is our Customer, What does our Customer Value, What are our Results, and What is our Plan, readers can focus on why they are doing what they are doing in their work, and how to do it better. This brief, clear and accessible book will challenge readers and stimulate spirited discussions and action within any organization, inspiring positive change and new levels of excellence. NEW TO THIS EDITION: 12 new contributions from young leaders and those who develop them who have been directly influenced by Peter Drucker's theories of management. They share how Drucker's framework and principles have guided them and offer advice in this context in clear, unadulterated language.
