"A revised edition of Kim Scott's perennial bestseller that created a cultural revolution and took workplaces worldwide by storm. Radical Candor is back with an all new foreword, afterword, FAQ, and radically candid performance review. From the time we learn to speak, we're told that if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. When you become a manager, it's your job to say it-and your obligation. Author Kim Scott was an executive...

"'The leadership industry has failed,' charges Stanford Business School professor Pfeffer in this lively critique of a professional discipline driven, according to him, not by wisdom or a desire to foster leadership, but by money. Its precepts, he writes, are 'based more on hope than reality, on wishes rather than data, on beliefs instead of science.' Pfeffer sets out to help his readers rethink leadership by focusing on the root causes of failures...

Describes the importance of being a leader instead of a manager and explains how to lead through empowerment, presenting four strategies based on the qualities of great leaders in history: attention through vision, meaning through communication, trust through positioning, and the deployment of self, based on positive self-regard and the Wallenda factor.

"The former superintendent at West Point and a psychologist explain why all successful leaders rely on a foundation of strong character. Among the most successful leaders throughout history-from Abe Lincoln to Rosa Parks, Mahatma Gandhi to Susan B. Anthony, Martin Luther King, Jr. to Nelson Mandela-some were brilliant mathematicians and economists, others were creative visionaries, still others were masterful at strategic planning. Their mastery of...

"Leadership mentor and entrepreneur Steve McClatchy delivers a practical and insightful discussion of how to build trust and confidence between and among your colleagues. You'll learn how to examine what makes your best relationships so great, manage and develop relationships you did not choose, and how to lead at the highest levels of maturity ... This book will also show you how to manage egos, immaturity, and games like silent treatment and ghosting...

In his bestselling book The 80/20 Principle, Richard Koch showed readers how to put the 80/20 Principle--the idea that 80 percent of results come from just 20 percent of effort--into practice in their personal lives. Now in THE 80/20 MANAGER, he demonstrates how to apply the principle to management. An 80/20 manager learns to focus only on the issues that really matter, achieving exceptional results, and feeling successful everyday while working less...

"In The Type B Manager, Victor Lipman offers a unique lens through which to view the challenging problems of management. While management has long been considered the realm of Type A individuals--hard-driving, competitive high achievers--all too often these high-intensity traits aren't effective when it comes to motivating your employees. Many characteristics of Type B individuals--being more relaxed, less competitive, more reflective, slower to anger--can...

"Not so unlike parents who are blessed by the birth of their first child, no founder or founders knows exactly what the ups and downs, successes and failures, will be like until they go from seed idea to running an actual startup company with customers, on-the-fly growth decisions, pivots, and scaling up ahead of them. It's a humbling experience, for every first-time entrepreneur. Unless someone is there to show you the way"-- Provided by publisher....

"Before one can become a truly effective manager to their teams, they need to create those teams. In many ways, finding the right person for the job AND integrating them into an existing team can be exponentially harder than managing that person/team. It's a problem faced by managers across all enterprises. Written by Mark Horstman, an expert in training managers, The Effective Hiring Manager will help managers across any and all organizations (from...