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You might enjoy this collection if you're a new manager looking to develop essential leadership skills and adaptive strategies. Featuring insights from renowned authors, it offers valuable guidance on managing teams effectively, motivating employees, and transitioning smoothly from an individual contributor to a leader. This book provides a practical toolkit for personal and professional growth, perfect for those eager to enhance their management capabilities.
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See moreDevelop 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
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 articles and selected the most important ones to help you transition from being an outstanding individual contributor to a great manager of others.
This book will inspire you to:
- Develop your emotional intelligence
- Influence your colleagues with the science of persuasion
- Assess your team and enhance its performance
- Network effectively to achieve business goals and for personal advancement
- Navigate relationships with employees, bosses, and peers
- Get support from above
- View the big picture in your decision-making
- Balance your team's work and personal life in a high-intensity workplace
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781633693029
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 28 February 2017
Country: United States
Imprint: Harvard Business Review Press
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 18.0mm
Width: 139.0mm
Height: 209.0mm
Weight: 227g
Pages: 224
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Harvard Business Review is the leading destination for smart management thinking. Through its flagship magazine, 11 international licensed editions, books from Harvard Business Review Press, and digital content and tools published on HBR.org, Harvard Business Review provides professionals around the world with rigorous insights and best practices to lead themselves and their organizations more effectively and to make a positive impact.
Author social media/website info: hbr.org, @HarvardBiz
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Every path in life is hard. Being unfit and unhealthy is hard. Choosing to exercise, eat well, face discomfort, and do the difficult things is also hard. The question is: which hard do you choose? In Choose Your Hard, Professor Grant Schofield, one of New Zealandโs most cited health scientists with over 18,000 citations in the scientific literature, argues that...Paperback$3300Elsewhere:$3500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
The Atomic Habits Daily Calendar
Powerful ideas for each day of the year from the author of the #1 worldwide bestseller, Atomic Habits. Based on the principles that made Atomic Habits a global phenomenon, this daily calendar turns habit formation into a simple daily practice. Get actionable guidance, motivational insights, and system-building tools that make it easier to get a little bit betterโevery day of...By James ClearCalendar$3699Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
The DOSE Effect
The DOSE Effect offers small habits to boost your brain chemistry. "This book will help you find more motivation, create deeper connections, energise your body, and destress your mind," says Jay Shetty, author of Think Like a Monk. Life can feel overwhelming, but it doesnโt have to be. Todayโs fast-paced world leaves many of us struggling with extreme emotional highs...By TJ PowerPaperback$3199Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /Unavailableโ โ โ โ โ(2)In StockShips tomorrow -
Now What?
There are countless self-help books telling you how to get the life you wantโhow to find your purpose, make your plan, follow your goals. Yet, too many of us are frozen in life, unfulfilled and stuck with what we have. Too often, we only see our future through a lens of the pastโour past beliefs, experiences, and circumstances. We desire...Paperback$3299Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
We Can Do Hard Things
We Can Do Hard Things is a powerful and inspiring guide co-authored by renowned voices Abby Wambach, Glennon Doyle, and Amanda Doyle. This compelling book offers insights and encouragement to help readers tackle life's toughest challenges. By combining personal stories with practical advice, the authors empower you to embrace resilience and courage. Their collective wisdom sheds light on the strength...Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
Atua Wahine
Ancient wisdom of the Mฤori goddesses to help you navigate the modern world Atua Wahine are the Mฤori goddesses who make up the world around us: earth, fire, water, the moon, and more. From the earth mother, Papatuanuku, who sustains and nurtures us, to the goddess of peace, Hineputehue, who transformed pain into beauty, and the misunderstood goddess of the...By Hana TapiataHardback$3000Elsewhere:$3699Unit price /Unavailableโ โ โ โ โ(3)In StockShips tomorrow -
The Myth of Normal
A book that changes everything - from the legendary Dr Gabor Matรฉ THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD We tend to believe that normality equals health. Yet what is the norm in the Western world? Mental illness and chronic disease are on an unstoppable rise. How did we get here? And what lies ahead for us?...By Gabor Matรฉ and Daniel MatรฉPaperback$2400Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
The Anxious Generation
A powerful argument for reclaiming childhoodโand all human relationshipsโfrom the online world, from the influential social psychologist and international bestselling author. Jonathan Haidt has spent his career speaking truth and wisdom in some of the most difficult spacesโcommunities polarised by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the mental health emergency hitting teenagers today in many countries around...Paperback$2299Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
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