Book description
Whether you’re a new manager or looking to have more influence in your current management role, the challenges you face come in all shapes and sizesa direct report’s anxious questions, your boss’s last-minute assignment of an important presentation, or a blank business case staring you in the face. To reach your full potential in these situations, you need to master a new set of business and personal skills.
Packed with step-by-step advice and wisdom from Harvard Business Review’s management archive, the HBR Manager’s Handbook provides best practices on topics from understanding key financial statements and the fundamentals of strategy to emotional intelligence and building your employees’ trust. The book’s brief sections allow you to home in quickly on the solutions you need right awayor take a deeper dive if you need more context.
Keep this comprehensive guide with you throughout your career and be a more impactful leader in your organization.
In the HBR Manager’s Handbook you’ll find:
- Step-by-step guidance through common managerial tasks
- Short sections and chapters that you can turn to quickly as a need arises
- Self-assessments throughout
- Exercises and templates to help you practice and apply the concepts in the book
- Concise explanations of the latest research and thinking on important management skills from Harvard Business Review experts such as Dan Goleman, Clayton Christensen, John Kotter, and Michael Porter
- Real-life stories from working managers
- Recaps and action items at the end of each chapter that allow you to reinforce or review the ideas quickly
The skills covered in the book include:
- Transitioning into a leadership role
- Building trust and credibility
- Developing emotional intelligence
- Becoming a person of influence
- Developing yourself as a leader
- Giving effective feedback
- Leading teams
- Fostering creativity
- Mastering the basics of strategy
- Learning to use financial tools
- Developing a business case
HBR Handbooks provide ambitious professionals with the frameworks, advice, and tools they need to excel in their careers. With step-by-step guidance, time-honed best practices, real-life stories, and concise explanations of research published in Harvard Business Review, each comprehensive volume helps you to stand out from the pack--whatever your role.
Table of contents
- Contents
- Introduction
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Part One: Develop a Leader Mindset
- 1. The Transition to Leadership (1/4)
- 1. The Transition to Leadership (2/4)
- 1. The Transition to Leadership (3/4)
- 1. The Transition to Leadership (4/4)
- 2. Building Trust and Credibility (1/3)
- 2. Building Trust and Credibility (2/3)
- 2. Building Trust and Credibility (3/3)
- 3. Emotional Intelligence (1/4)
- 3. Emotional Intelligence (2/4)
- 3. Emotional Intelligence (3/4)
- 3. Emotional Intelligence (4/4)
- 4. Positioning Yourself for Success (1/2)
- 4. Positioning Yourself for Success (2/2)
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Part Two: Managing Yourself
- 5. Becoming a Person of Influence (1/4)
- 5. Becoming a Person of Influence (2/4)
- 5. Becoming a Person of Influence (3/4)
- 5. Becoming a Person of Influence (4/4)
- 6. Communicating Effectively (1/4)
- 6. Communicating Effectively (2/4)
- 6. Communicating Effectively (3/4)
- 6. Communicating Effectively (4/4)
- 7. Personal Productivity (1/4)
- 7. Personal Productivity (2/4)
- 7. Personal Productivity (3/4)
- 7. Personal Productivity (4/4)
- 8. Self-Development (1/4)
- 8. Self-Development (2/4)
- 8. Self-Development (3/4)
- 8. Self-Development (4/4)
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Part Three: Managing Individuals
- 9. Delegating with Confidence (1/4)
- 9. Delegating with Confidence (2/4)
- 9. Delegating with Confidence (3/4)
- 9. Delegating with Confidence (4/4)
- 10. Giving Effective Feedback (1/4)
- 10. Giving Effective Feedback (2/4)
- 10. Giving Effective Feedback (3/4)
- 10. Giving Effective Feedback (4/4)
- 11. Developing Talent (1/4)
- 11. Developing Talent (2/4)
- 11. Developing Talent (3/4)
- 11. Developing Talent (4/4)
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Part Four: Manging Teams
- 12. Leading Teams (1/5)
- 12. Leading Teams (2/5)
- 12. Leading Teams (3/5)
- 12. Leading Teams (4/5)
- 12. Leading Teams (5/5)
- 13. Fostering Creativity (1/4)
- 13. Fostering Creativity (2/4)
- 13. Fostering Creativity (3/4)
- 13. Fostering Creativity (4/4)
- 14. Hiring––and Keeping––the Best (1/4)
- 14. Hiring––and Keeping––the Best (2/4)
- 14. Hiring––and Keeping––the Best (3/4)
- 14. Hiring––and Keeping––the Best (4/4)
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Part Five: Managing the Business
- 15. Strategy: A Primer (1/4)
- 15. Strategy: A Primer (2/4)
- 15. Strategy: A Primer (3/4)
- 15. Strategy: A Primer (4/4)
- 16. Mastering Financial Tools (1/5)
- 16. Mastering Financial Tools (2/5)
- 16. Mastering Financial Tools (3/5)
- 16. Mastering Financial Tools (4/5)
- 16. Mastering Financial Tools (5/5)
- 17. Developing a Business Case (1/4)
- 17. Developing a Business Case (2/4)
- 17. Developing a Business Case (3/4)
- 17. Developing a Business Case (4/4)
- Epilogue
- Sources (1/3)
- Sources (2/3)
- Sources (3/3)
- Index (1/3)
- Index (2/3)
- Index (3/3)
Product information
- Title: Harvard Business Review Manager's Handbook
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2016
- Publisher(s): Harvard Business Review Press
- ISBN: 9781633691254
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