HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People MP3 CD – MP3 Audio, August 9, 2016

If you are looking for a quick introduction to the ideas of a number of thought-leaders on how to manage people, this book is a good resource. The ideas discussed in this book include:Daniel Goleman: There are six leadership styles - coercive, authoritative, affiliative, democratic, pacesetting and coaching. The most effective leaders are able to change between these styles when appropriate.Frederick Herzberg: Punishments and rewards are ineffective tools for motivating people. Instead, try enriching their jobs by removing controls, giving employees more information, and giving access to greater challenges.Manzoni and Barsoux: Employees who are viewed as weak performers often live down to expectations because the supervisor's attempts at performance management result in worse rather than better performance.Carol Walker: New managers often perform poorly because they have not learnt the skills of delegating, getting support from above, projecting confidence, focusing on the big picture, and giving constructive feedback.Marcus Buckingham: Great managers do not try to change their employees. Instead, they tweak roles to capitalize on individual strengths, create personalised incentives, and tailor coaching to unique learning styles.Kim and Mauborgne: Harmony in the workplace required fair process, including inviting input from employees affected by a decision, explaining the thinking behind decisions, and providing clear expectations.Chris Argyris: An organization's smartest and most successful people are often poor learners because they have not had the opportunity for introspection that comes with failure.Banaji, Bazerman and Chugh: Everyone has unconscious biases which affect decisions. To counteract these biases, gather better data, get rid of stereotypical cues, and broaden your mind-set.Katzenbach and Smith: A good team has a meaningful common purpose, specific performance goals, a mix of complementary skills, a strong commitment to how the work gets done, and mutual accountability.Gabarro and Kotter: To have a good relationship with your boss, focus on compatible work styles, mutual expectations, information flow, dependability and honesty, and good use of time and resources.In my opinion, every article in the book contains ideas which will be useful in almost any workplace. In most workplaces there is enormous scope for improving the quality of people management. Some of the articles were first published more than 20 years ago, but the principles which they espouse are yet to find their way into most workplaces. I highly recommend this book to any manager.

Many of the articles offered practical, actionable advice and insight. Which is that I enjoy. I recommend the book. Thanks

I read the selection on people management by HBR, but seems a bit overlapping, like 20%.Though some articles were back in 80 or 90's, still instructive nowadays.

Book came in good condition. Very pleased.

Good mix of articles; some more interesting than others but overall a pretty good book. Good read for any manager.

This is a great collection of useful and insightful articles. That said, shame on HBR and Amazon for not paying more attention to the formatting. There is no table of contents, so you cannot see up front what the articles are or navigate easily through them. Furthermore, some of the tables and other inset material is not formatted for the Kindle so it break awkwardly across screens and is hard to bookmark. I expected more from the e-book version. I might just as well have saved myself the money and hunted down the individual articles in PDF format through my employer's library!

I ought this for my daughter who has been managing a small insurance agency. She listens to it in the car and says she has learned quite a bit from the CD. She mentioned it the other day and said she was glad to have it and was able to implement some of what she had learned already.

Lot of insight. Good read for managing people.

Not the best book for beginners. Best suited for managers who have been around working for atleast a year. The first few chapters were useful, later on gets too technical for my liking. Will probably help me better when I am in the thick of my role.

El libro contiene artículos interesantes pero debido a la variedad de autores la calidad de los artículos también es variable.

The book flown by the ways we face the job with people explain into theoric and practics ways what we need to improve our managing style.

Excellent books, very useful for day to day office management and self management. Dr.Gita Kasturi.

All good