Organized into three categories: managing yourself, managing your team, managing your business, this book teaches the soft and hard skills that are required to succeed in the workplace. It helps you learn a diverse range of skills, from managing your time to inspiring a team and motivating customers.

Managing people is fraught with challenges even if you're a seasoned manager. This book inspires you to tailor your management styles to fit your people; motivate with more responsibility, not more money; support first-time managers; build trust by soliciting input; teach smart people how to learn from failure; and build high-performing teams.

Develop the mindset and presence to successfully manage others for the first time. If you read nothing else on becoming a new manager, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review This book will inspire you to: develop your emotional intelligence influence your colleagues with the science of persuasion

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What's hard is actually doing these things - and excelling at them. In this book, strategy and change experts Ron Ashkenas and Brook Manville distill the best proven ideas and frameworks about leadership from Harvard Business Review