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English
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Based on the original book The One Minute Manager that helped millions of people around the world in organizations large and small, this new version of the classic story deals with a new world. The book will help you find meaning in your work and inspire you to discover new ways to help your organization adapt and prosper.
Author
Publisher
Northfield Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Helps supervisors and managers effectively communicate appreciation and encouragement to their employees, resulting in higher levels of job satisfaction, healthier relationships between managers and employees, and decreased cases of burnout.
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Series
Publisher
Teach Yourself
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Manser helps you develop your conversational skills for the workplace. He offers help to new and aspiring managers who need to deliver bad new in a appraisal, or work with problem colleagues. By developing your active listening skills and the art of asking incisive questions, you can make difficult conversations easier.
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Publisher
New Society Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In The Token: Common Sense Ideas for Creating Diversity in Your Organization, your new token Black friend, Crystal Byrd Farmer, acts as the bridge between majority white organizations that are dedicated to social justice and affirmative action and the diverse people in community they want to recruit."--
10) Why managing sucks and how to fix it: a results-only guide to taking control of work, not people
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Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Shows how your organization can become more entrepreneurial, more connected with the broader trends in your industry, and more willing to take smart risks. Explains how to set clear expectations and focus on the endpoint as opposed to managing the process that gets you there. Offers quick, everyday strategies to experience huge increases in productivity (without adding resources) and dramatic drops in turnover.
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Series
YouSpace volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A wizard's delicate balance of employees, including a dragon slayer, the Big Bad Wolf, and goblins, is thrown into disarray by a young, clueless outsider.
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Publisher
HarperCollins Leadership, an imprint of HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
For creators, getting that promotion to management is exciting but can also be scary. The skills that made them so successful may not translate to the skill required to be a great manager, and this gets even more complicated when managing other creatives who often don t thrive under traditional management procedures. Creative Directions is a management masterclass in which readers attend lectures and seminars as they learn from some of the best in...
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Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"What do football coach Bill Walsh, restauranteur Alice Waters, television executive Lorne Michaels, technolƯogy CEO Larry Ellison, and fashion pioneer Ralph Lauren have in common? On the surface, not much, other than consistent success in their fields. But below the surface, they share a common approach to finding, nurturing, leading, and even letting go of great people. The way they deal with talent makes them not merely success stories, not merely...
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Series
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A step-by-step guide to designing and implementing a state-of-the-science performance management system in your business. Learn to develop it, assess how it's working, improve your leadership skills, and help your employees grow.
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Series
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"All humans have bias, and as a result, so do the institutions we build. Internationally sought after diversity consultant Tiffany Jana offers concrete ways for anyone to work against institutional bias no matter what their position is in an organization"--
"All humans have bias, and as a result, so do the institutions we build. Internationally sought after diversity consultant Tiffany Jana offers concrete ways for anyone to work against institutional...
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Publisher
Matt Holt Books, an imprint of BenBella Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A practical guide for new managers, and especially those in fast-growing or start-up organizations, Bringing Up the Boss combines anecdotes, data, how-to exercises, and templates to help the reader build the fundamental skills of being a great boss"--
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Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
After her first two weeks observing the problems at Decision Tech, Kathryn Petersen, its new CEO, had more than a few moments when she wondered if she should have taken the job. But Kathryn knew there was little chance she would have turned it down. After all, retirement had made her antsy, and nothing excited her more than a challenge. What she could not have known when she accepted the job, however, was just how dysfunctional her team was, and how...
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