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The trusted management classic and go-to guide for anyone facing new responsibilities as a first-time manager, revised and updated to address modern management challenges.The jump from star employee to new manager is bigger than most people realize--with opportunities to fail at every step. Stumbling your way through isn't an option.Learn to conquer every challenge like a pro with the clear, candid advice in The First-Time Manager. For nearly four...
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Management guru Jill Geisler has coached countless men and women who want to build their leadership skills, help employees do their best work, and make workplaces happy and successful. In WORK HAPPY, she provides a practical, step-by-step guide, based on real-world experience, respected research, and lessons that will transform managers and their teams. It's a workshop-in-a-book, designed to produce positive, immediate and lasting results.
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Effective employee management is imperative to a business's success, but all too often management books turn the important details of best practices into tedious reading that would put even a CEO to sleep. Provides hand-on lessons on managing productive, happy employees. From hiring and firing to delegating and coaching.
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"In The Type B Manager, Victor Lipman offers a unique lens through which to view the challenging problems of management. While management has long been considered the realm of Type A individuals--hard-driving, competitive high achievers--all too often these high-intensity traits aren't effective when it comes to motivating your employees. Many characteristics of Type B individuals--being more relaxed, less competitive, more reflective, slower to anger--can...
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"Before one can become a truly effective manager to their teams, they need to create those teams. In many ways, finding the right person for the job AND integrating them into an existing team can be exponentially harder than managing that person/team. It's a problem faced by managers across all enterprises. Written by Mark Horstman, an expert in training managers, The Effective Hiring Manager will help managers across any and all organizations (from...