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HBR's 10 Must Reads for New Managers Collection
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HBR's 10 Must Reads for New Managers Collection

by Harvard Business Review, Michael D. Watkins, Peter F. Drucker, W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne
April 2019
Beginner
816 pages
19h 34m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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What Great Managers Do

by Marcus Buckingham

THE BEST BOSS I EVER HAD.” That’s a phrase most of us have said or heard at some point, but what does it mean? What sets the great boss apart from the average boss? The literature is rife with provocative writing about the qualities of managers and leaders and whether the two differ, but little has been said about what happens in the thousands of daily interactions and decisions that allows managers to get the best out of their people and win their devotion. What do great managers actually do?

In my research, beginning with a survey of 80,000 managers conducted by the Gallup Organization and continuing during the past two years with in-depth studies of a few top performers, I’ve found that while there ...

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