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97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know
Author Camille Fournier
Tap into the wisdom of experts to learn what every engineering manager should know. With 97 short and extremely useful tips for engineering managers, you'll discover new approaches to old problems, pick up road-tested best practices, and hone your management skill....
Release Date 2019/11 -
Author Whitney Johnson
Digital tools make remote teams possible, but it’s not easy to wrangle an increasingly distributed workforce. Leaders must grapple with problems in several key areas: communication, project management, talent development and management, and reliable access to techn....
Release Date 2019/10 -
Author Jason Caldwell
World-record endurance athlete and professional leadership coach Jason Caldwell draws on his amazing experiences to show how anyone can build and lead teams that accomplish incredible things. Thirty-five days, 14 hours, and 3 minutes. That's how long it took....
Release Date 2019/10 -
The Unashamed Guide to Virtual Management
Author Ben Bisbee , Kathy Wisniewski
Manage Virtual Teams for Maximum ResultsWorking remotely is a reality of today’s and tomorrow’s workforce. With organizations switching from a model of only on-site employees to on-site and virtual employees working globally, managers need guidance on how to addres....
Release Date 2019/10 -
Improving the Rhythm of Your Collaboration
Author David Lazer , Jesse Shore , Ethan Bernstein
With so many digital tools in the workplace, collaboration has gone omnichannel. Given how hyperconnected people are, the authors set out to explore the implications for organizations and teams. In their research, they discovered that always-on connectivity was goo....
Release Date 2019/09 -
Collaborate Smarter, Not Harder
Author Peter Gray , Thomas H. Davenport , Rob Cross
Feeling pressure to become more agile and “networked,” organizations tend to overwhelm employees with collaboration demands, putting a drag on performance and engagement. But through analytics, they can scale collaboration more effectively, improve collaborative de....
Release Date 2019/09 -
It's Time to Tackle Your Team's Undiscussables
Author Jean-Louis Barsoux , Ginka Toegel
When leadership teams struggle with undiscussables, symptoms range from unresolved conflicts and uneven participation in meetings to destructive groupthink and employee disengagement. The more undiscussables there are, the more difficult it is for the team to funct....
Release Date 2019/09 -
How to Take Action for Successful Performance Management
Author Hanne Nørreklit , Professor Falconer Mitchell
This book is intended for practitioners, students, and researchers who are interested in designing, using, assessing, and researching performance management systems.Managerial personnel involved in such activity will hold many beliefs about how their organization f....
Release Date 2019/08 -
Author Alfonso Asensio
Chief Kickboxing Officer shows how the fighting and business mindsets cross over in this process of discovery and, in particular, what lessons can be learned from a highly refined and scientific type of fighting system: the martial arts.Business and fighting are tw....
Release Date 2019/08 -
Author Frieda Klotz
While flat organizational structures have gained favor in recent years, hierarchies continue to provide many important benefits, says the University of Michigan’s Lindy Greer. Depending on the circumstances, the answer isn’t to eliminate hierarchy but to train lead....
Release Date 2019/07 -
Information Systems Management
Author Claudio Vitari , Jean-Loup Richet , Julien Malaurent , Philippe Eynaud , Daniel Alba
Information Systems Management is intended to sensitize the heads of organizations to the issues raised by information systems (IS). Through its pedagogical presentation, the book ensures that issues related to IS are not left solely to the experts in the field. T....
Release Date 2019/07 -
Author Olga V. Mack
Get on Board: Earning Your Ticket to a Corporate Board Seat is a practical beginner’s guide for anyone considering becoming a director, from young professionals seeking corporate board service in the distant future to seasoned professionals contemplating an imminen....
Release Date 2019/07 -
Executive Presence, Second Edition: The Art of Commanding Respect Like a CEO, 2nd Edition
Author Harrison Monarth
Be the kind of leader that other leaders envy by strategically harnessing the extraordinary power of perception.One of today’s most in-demand leadership consultants, Harrison Monarth, has coached executives and CEOs in various industries, from technology, medicine ....
Release Date 2019/06 -
Great Coaching and Your Bottom Line
Author Marijan Hizak
If you are eager to find out the similarities between sports coach and business manager, and what lessons from the world of sports coaching can be applied to both sports and business management, then this is the book for you.It is commonly believed that, in order t....
Release Date 2019/06 -
10 Steps to Be a Successful Manager, 2nd Ed
Author Lisa Haneberg
There’s always room for improvement.It’s tough to be a great manager, but also fascinating, enriching, meaningful, and fun. Organizations need managers who bring individuals and teams together to do their best work in the service of company goals—make no mistake, m....
Release Date 2019/06 -
10 Steps to Successful Mentoring
Author Wendy Axelrod
Reach New Heights as a MentorBroaden people’s perspectives. Sustain momentum for development. Drive significant career growth. It doesn’t take a workplace superhero to accomplish all of this. You can do it—when you become a masterful mentor. While mentoring resourc....
Release Date 2019/06 -
Transforming the Next Generation Leaders
Author Sattar Bawany
This book is designed to provide insights into an understanding of the best practices and contemporary approaches to the identification, assessment, selection, and development of future leaders of an organization with a focus on executive and transition coaching as....
Release Date 2019/05 -
Author Professor David Wasieleski , Jennifer Hancock
This book provides a short introduction to the philosophy of humanism and discusses how and why it is being applied to business and why it is so effective when you do so.>You can’t understand humanistic business management unless you understand what humanism is.....
Release Date 2019/05 -
The Surprising Value of Obvious Insights
Author Adam M. Grant
Findings don’t have to be earth-shattering to be useful. In fact, obvious insights can help you overcome three barriers to change in your organization: resistance to new data (“But that’s not what my experience has shown”), resistance to cha....
Release Date 2019/04 -
How You Can Have More Impact as a People Analyst
Author Cade Massey
In the messy real world of ambiguous evidence and contentious objectives, organizational decisions — especially those about the people you’re hiring, developing, managing, and trying to retain — usually hinge on relationships and trust. So, if you....
Release Date 2019/04 -
Confessions of a Corporate Trainer: An Insider Tells All
Author Jonathan Halls
Embrace the Gritty Reality of TrainingEver watched half your class stomp out on you? Fallen asleep facilitating a creativity workshop? Planned a bulletproof lesson plan, then dropped it 10 minutes after you started? Don’t worry—it’s fine to confess. If you have fac....
Release Date 2019/04 -
Comparative Management Studies
Author Dr. Alan S. Gutterman
All managers, regardless of where they work, must understand certain basic concepts such as the functions, roles, and skills associated with the managerial position and the styles available to managers for use in any given situation. However, context matters, and ....
Release Date 2019/04 -
Author Katherine Phillips , Nancy Cantor , Earl Lewis , Scott Page
How businesses and other organizations can improve their performance by tapping the power of differences in how people thinkWhat if workforce diversity is more than simply the right thing to do? What if it can also improve the bottom line? It can. The Diversity Bon....
Release Date 2019/03 -
Author Gretchen Anderson
Collaboration is key for organizations in the 21st century, yet few business people have been trained to teach this skill. How do you advance ideas in a collaborative way and then communicate them throughout your company? In this practical book, author Gretchen And....
Release Date 2019/03 -
In Great Company: How to Spark Peak Performance By Creating an Emotionally Connected Workplace
Author Louis Carter
Drive long-term profits and growth by making the company a place your employees love.In Great Company presents a practical approach to ensure that your employees perform at their highest possible levels. It’s not about increasing salaries, offering huge bonuses, or....
Release Date 2019/02 -
The Unwritten Rules of Managing Up
Author Dana Brownlee
What do you do when the biggest threat to your project is your boss? It's not that your boss is out to get you. In fact, bosses generally mean well. But clueless leadership from a well-intentioned boss can sometimes cause more damage than a criminal mastermin....
Release Date 2019/02 -
Author Henry Mintzberg
If you're like most managers and things keep you up at night, now you can turn to a book that's designed especially for you! But you won't find talking rabbits or princesses here. (There is a cow, but it doesn't jump.) Henry Mintzberg has culled forty-two ....
Release Date 2019/02 -
What Managers Can Gain From Anonymous Chats
Author Ryan Bonnici
While anonymous feedback in teams can sometimes be less than constructive, when used the right way, digital chat tools that provide anonymity can help managers gauge employee morale and drive change. Show and hide more
Release Date 2019/01 -
Think Critically About the Wisdom of Experts
Author Andrew A. King
Leaders and managers must inevitably consult the analysis, advice, and research of people whose expertise exceeds their own in a variety of domains. Getting the most from that perspective means understanding precisely how to question the experts’ wisdom, no m....
Release Date 2018/12