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Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management
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Include books by the same authorFirst, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman · 255 pages
First, Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman is a management book that challenges traditional workplace practices. It reveals how the world’s best managers break conventional rules by focusing on employees’ strengths, setting clear outcomes, and fostering engagement. Instead of trying to fix weaknesses, great managers create environments where individuals thrive based on th
Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management
Scott Berkun · 396 pages
Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results
Mike Rother · 321 pages
"How any organization in any industry can progress from old-fashioned management by results to a strikingly different and better way.—James P. Womack, Chairman and Founder, Lean Enterprise Institute"One of the stepping stones that will usher in a new era of management thinking.—The Systems ThinkerThis game-changing book puts you behind the curtain at Toyota, providing new insight into the legendar
Organizational Theory, Design, and Change
Gareth R. Jones · 521 pages
Putting the One Minute Manager to Work: How to Turn the 3 Secrets into Skills
Kenneth H. Blanchard, Robert Lorber · 111 pages
Growing Pains: Transitioning from an Entrepreneurship to a Professionally Managed Firm
Eric G. Flamholtz · 472 pages
It's Okay to Be the Boss: The Step-by-Step Guide to Becoming the Manager Your Employees Need
Bruce Tulgan · 208 pages
Do you feel you don't have enough time to manage your people?Do you avoid interacting with some employees because you hate the dreaded confrontations that often follow?Do you have some great employees you really cannot afford to lose?Do you secretly wish you could be more in control but don't know where to start?Managing people is harder and more high-pressure today than ever before. There's no ro
Warren Buffett's Management Secrets: Proven Tools for Personal and Business Success
Mary Buffett, David Clark · 148 pages
An in-depth look at Warren Buffett's philosophies for personal and professional management--what they are, how they work, and how you can use them.
Rework
Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson · 279 pages
Most business books give you the same old advice: Write a business plan, study the competition, seek investors, yadda yadda. If you're looking for a book like that, put this one back on the shelf.Rework shows you a better, faster, easier way to succeed in business. Read it and you'll know why plans are actually harmful, why you don't need outside investors, and why you're better off ignoring the c
Thriving on Chaos: Handbook for a Management Revolution
Tom Peters · 568 pages
Forty-five prescriptions specify what managers at every level must do if the organizations they lead are to survive in today's chaotic economic environment.
12: The Elements of Great Managing
Rodd Wagner, James K. Harter · 258 pages
Combines the results of interviews with employees and managers from around the world with research in psychology, game theory, and other fields to explain how to apply an understanding of human nature to promote a company's success.
The Carrot Principle: How the Best Managers Use Recognition to Engage Their People, Retain Talent, and Accelerate Performance [Updated Revised]
Adrian Gostick, Chester Elton · 235 pages
Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't
Verne Harnish · 256 pages
In this guide, Harnish and his co-authors share practical tools and techniques to help entrepreneurs grow an industry -- dominating business without it killing them -- and actually have fun. Many growth company leaders reach a point where they actually dread adding another customer, employee, or location. It feels like they are just adding more weight to an ever-heavier anchor they are dragging th
Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan · 283 pages
The book that shows how to get the job done and deliver results . . . whether you're running an entire company or in your first management jobLarry Bossidy is one of the world's most acclaimed CEOs, a man with few peers who has a track record for delivering results. Ram Charan is a legendary advisor to senior executives and boards of directors, a man with unparalleled insight into why some compani
The New One Minute Manager
Kenneth H. Blanchard, Spencer Johnson · 120 pages
Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great
Esther Derby, Diana Larsen, Ken Schwaber · 186 pages
The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals
Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, Jim Huling · 352 pages
Do you remember the last major initiative you watched die in your organization? Did it go down with a loud crash? Or was it slowly and quietly suffocated by other competing priorities? By the time it finally disappeared, it's likely no one even noticed. What happened? The "whirlwind" of urgent activity required to keep things running day-to-day devoured all the time and energy you needed to invest
Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition
Lyssa Adkins · 333 pages
The Future of Management
Gary Hamel, Bill Breen · 280 pages
"In The Future of Management, world-renowned business sage Gary Hamel argues that organizations need bold management innovation now more than ever. The current management model - centered on control and efficiency - no longer suffices in a world where adaptability and creativity drive business success." "In his most provocative book to date, Hamel takes aim at the legacy beliefs preventing twenty-
The Halo Effect: ... and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers
Philip M. Rosenzweig · 256 pages
Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter
Liz Wiseman, Greg McKeown · 288 pages
Do you make those around you smarter? We’ve all had experience with two dramatically different types of leaders. The first type drains intelligence, energy, and capability from the people around them and always needs to be the smartest ones in the room. These are the idea killers, the energy sappers, the diminishers of talent and commitment. On the other side of the spectrum are leaders who
Up the Organization: How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits
Robert C. Townsend, Warren G. Bennis · 202 pages
Although it was first published more than thirty-five years ago, Up the Organization continues to top the lists of best business books by groups as diverse as the American Management Association, Strategy + Business (Booz Allen Hamilton), and The Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management. 1-800-CEO-READ ranks Townsend's bestseller first among eighty books that "every manager must read."