Skills for New Managers: Morey Stettner

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Skills for New Managers will include hands-on information on the following key topics: hiring new employees by asking the right questions; delegating work efficiently; dealing with the stress that comes with a management position; communicating effectively with your employees; how to master mentoring, leadership, and coaching styles. These books will be [...]

Successful Manager’s Handbook: Develop Yourself, Coach Others: Susan H. Gebelein

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ANSWERS YOU NEED FROM EXPERTS YOU TRUST How many times have you bought the latest and greatest management book and let it collect dust on your shelf? Management fads come and go, but leaders across the globe know that when they need substance, they’ll find it in [...]

Successful Executive’s Handbook: Elaine B. Sloan, Susan H. Gebelein, David G. Lee, Kristie J. Nelson-Neuhaus

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THE book for executives to develop themselves! This is an essential resource to support executive development, giving individuals easy access to targeted, realistic strategies to improve job performance. A special section provides a comprehensive list of the best books, seminars and web sites designed specifically [...]

The Handbook for Leaders: 24 Lessons for Extraordinary Leaders: John Zenger, Joseph Folkman, John Zenger, Joseph Folkman

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These quick reads, based on McGraw-Hill bestsellers, are designed to meet the needs of busy people. Titles in the series focus on each book’s main themes and action ideas, reduced to a manageable page count for on-the-go readers.
A workplace-tested prescription for encouraging the behaviors and key drivers of effective leadership, from one of [...]

How to Motivate Every Employee: 24 Proven Tactics to Spark Productivity in the Workplace (The McGraw-Hill Professional Education Series): Anne Bruce

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Describes 24 proven tactics to spark productivity in the workplace. Softcover.
From the Back Cover
24 Ways to Motivate Every Employee Think about the managers who most influenced your career. They were successful because they infused employees–and organizations–with passion [...]

The New Supervisor’s Survival Manual: William A. Salmon

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A comprehensive guide to the role and demands of a supervisors position, this text takes the reader through the key tasks and responsibilities of the job. It includes real-life examples, checklists and tools for self-assessment.
Book Description

"Moving up to a [...]

The Carrot Principle: How the Best Managers Use Recognition to Engage Their Employees, Retain Talent, and Drive Performance: Adrian Gostick, Chester Elton

Book DescriptionGot carrotphobia? Do you think that recognizing your employees will distract you and your team from more serious business, create jealousy, or make you look soft? Think again.The Carrot Principle reveals the groundbreaking results of one of the most in-depth management studies ever undertaken, showing definitively that the central characteristic of the [...]

30 Reasons Employees Hate Their Managers: What Your People May Be Thinking and What You Can Do About It: Bruce L. Katcher, Adam Snyder

Quietly seething…secretly resenting…and ultimately affecting performance, employees’ negative feelings toward their managers can lurk beneath the surface of even the most pleasant-seeming work relationships. These issues, if gone unchecked, can result in organizational catastrophe. To find out what’s really going on, the authors surveyed more than 50,000 employees in 65 organizations of all [...]

The Future of Leadership: Today’s Top Leadership Thinkers Speak to Tomorrow’s Leaders: Warren Bennis, Gretchen M. Spreitzer, Thomas G. Cummings, Thomas Cummings

From Publishers Weekly
Like their colleagues above, Warren Bennis, Gretchen M. Spreitzer and Thomas G. Cummings, all professors at USC’s Marshall School of Business, have puzzled over the challenges and demands facing 21st-century corporate leaders. In The Future of Leadership: Today’s Top Leadership Thinkers Speak to Tomorrow’s Leaders, [...]

Competing Values Leadership: Creating Value in Organizations (New Horizons in Management Series): Robert E. Quinn, Jeff Degraff, Anjan V. Thakor, Kim S. Cameron

Review
‘This is a very readable and excellently presented volume. It will interest anyone concerned with organizational effectiveness and the competing values model.’ - Economic Outlook and Business Review ‘I recommend this book to anyone wishing to understand and practice leadership. Leadership is often treated in [...]