Great management is difficult to see as it occurs. It's possible to see the results of great management, but it's not easy to see how managers achieve those results. Great management happens in one-on-one meetings and with other managers---all in private. It's hard to learn management by example when you can't see it.
You can learn to be a better manager---even a great manager---with this guide. You'll follow along as Sam, a manager just brought on board, learns the ropes and deals with his new team over the course of his first eight weeks on the job. From scheduling and managing resources to helping team members grow and prosper, you'll be there as Sam makes it happen. You'll find powerful tips covering:
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<li>Delegating effectively</li>
<li>Using feedback and goal-setting</li>
<li>Developing influence</li>
<li>Handling one-on-one meetings</li>
<li>Coaching and mentoring</li>
<li>Deciding what work to do---and what not to do</li>
<li>...and more.</li>
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Full of tips and practical advice on the most important aspects of management, this is one of those books that can make a lasting andimmediate impact on your career.

Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management (Pragmatic Programmers)

Computers & Technology

Rothman, Johanna

Derby, Esther

Programming

Pragmatic Bookshelf

Change is difficult but essential—Esther Derby offers seven guidelines for change by attraction, an approach that draws people into the process so that instead of resisting change, they embrace it. Even if you don’t have change management in your job description, your job involves change. Change is a given as modern organizations respond to market and technology advances, make improvements, and evolve practices to meet new challenges. This is not a simple process on any level. Often, there is no indisputable right answer, and responding requires trial and error, learning and unlearning. Whatever you choose to do, it will interact with existing policies and structures in unpredictable ways. And there is, quite simply, a natural human resistance to being told to change. Rather than creating more rigorous preconceived plans or imposing change by decree, agile software developer turned organizational change expert Esther Derby offers change by attraction, an approach that is adaptive and responsive and engages people in learning, evolving, and owning the new way. Shepresents a set of seven heuristics—guides to problem-solving—that empower people to achieve outcomes within broad constraints using their personal ingenuity and creativity. When you work by attraction, you give space and support for people to feel the loss that comes with change and help them see what is valuable about the future you propose. Resistance fades because people feel there is nothing to push against—only something they want to move toward. Derby’s approach clears the fog to provide a new way forward that honors people and creates safety for change.

7 Rules for Positive, Productive Change: Micro Shifts, Macro Results

Business & Money

Business Culture

Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Even if you don't have change management in your job description, your job involves change. Change is a given, as organizations evolve with market and technology advances and adapt to new challenges. These are not simple issues with one right answer. Responding in complex environments requires trial and error, learning and unlearning. The answer is not more rigorous planning but rather an agile approach that engages, empowers, and attracts people to create and own a new way. In 7 Rules for Positive, Productive Change, Esther Derby offers a set of heuristics--guides to problem solving--that will help you navigate complex change in your environment.

7 Rules for Positive, Productive Change

Dreamscape Media

Agile Retrospectives, Second Edition: A Practical Guide for Catalyzing Team Learning and Improvement

Horowitz, David

Larsen, Diana

Management & Leadership

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