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Harvard Business Review publishes new and authoritative ideas for improving the practice of management. Written by leading business thinkers and executives, HBR gives readers a first look at cutting-edge ideas and their real-world applications in areas like strategy, leadership, marketing, team management, and professional development. Each monthly issue presents groundbreaking research, analysis of the forces shaping the business agenda, and proven best practices designed to help individuals and organizations lead, manage, and compete more effectively and with greater purpose.

 

This handbook provides guidance on the three major communication skills at work - writing, presenting, and listening. It is suitable for managers, professionals, training departments and anyone in a people related job.

nternational and U.S. IPO Planning

Going public is the dream of many private companies, whether they are considering a U.S. or international initial public offering (IPO). Founders of private companies can maintain their control positions in the public company and still sell their personal stock to diversify their investments. In addition, public companies can typically raise capital more cheaply and easily than private companies, with far fewer operational restrictions. By laying out a detailed blueprint for an effective IPO, International and U.S. IPO Planning provides the advanced planning steps necessary to maximize success in today's global environment.

Careful advance planning is crucial to having a successful IPO and should be started years before the IPO target date, whether in the U.S. or internationally. Although excessive U.S. regulations have sullied the IPO dream of many smaller U.S. private companies, this hands-on business strategy guide explores the promising international IPO markets that are increasingly hospitable to IPOs of private companies throughout the world, including the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange as well as other international exchanges, and explores the U.S. tax issues of an international IPO. The book also analyzes both traditional and nontraditional U.S. IPOs, including the pros and cons of mergers into public shells and SPACs.

Increase Your Productivity, Reduce Stress, and Get Home on Time at Last! More than one million people worldwide are getting their work done and improving the way they feel at work thanks to Kerry Gleeson's revolutionary book, The Personal Efficiency Program. Now, it's your turn. Find out how to get organized, navigate technologies like port-able communication devices and e-mail, run a no-nonsense meeting, juggle all the players in the new global business environment, and carve out more time to do what you really want to do. We all struggle to balance work life and personal life; this book will help you work more quickly and efficiently, freeing time for you to fulfill your other duties as a parent, a spouse, or a friend. This updated Fourth Edition of the ultimate labor-saving, stress-busting, career-boosting guide helps you take complete control of every challenge and chore you face at work. Revised and retooled to address the evolving demands of the modern workplace, it shows you how to: *Learn to organize yourself to act *Stop feeling overwhelmed and free yourself from stress *Get things done with the least amount of effort *End e-mail overload *Are your meetings a waste of time? Make them effective and efficient! *Spend less time at the office and more time kicking up your heels

This isn’t just “someone’s opinion”…It’s the first, definitive, evidence-based guide to effective management. In The Truth About Managing People…and Nothing but the Truth, Robbins delivers principles you can rely on throughout your entire management career–regardless of your organization, role or title.

This is a management book that cuts through the soft opinion and conjecture books that have dominated the business shelves in recent years and shows what management researchers know actually works, or doesn’t work, when it comes to managing people.

Drawing on the author’s 30+ years of research and textbook writing experience, Robbins has distilled the results of thousands of research studies on human behavior into over 60 proven “truths” that can transform how you manage people–and the results that are achieved.

The author provides guidance to you organized around key, human-behavior-related problemareas that managers face (hiring, motivation, leadership, communication, team building, conflict management, job design, evaluating performance and coping with change), along with guidance to help you apply the information and improve your managerial effectiveness.

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ISBN-0814474292

With the same brand of accessible and sage advice readers found in The First-Time Manager, this new offering from management expert Gary S. Topchik covers the basics of team building.

The book helps readers discover how their own leadership and management style influences the success of their teams.

Managers will learn how to:

• Make the transition from team member to team leader
• Understand the difference between a team and a work group
• Hold team members accountable
• Make their teams more productive
• Manage challenging situations and resolve conflict within a team

Author: Harvard Business Review
Publisher: Harvard Business Review
Number of Pages: 80
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ISBN-0275990109

An invisible line between individual contributor and leader was once thought to exist, separating “leaders” from “followers.”

Two decades of downsizings and rightsizings have forever blurred this distinction and left us with three fundamental challenges:

(1) How can an organization elicit leadership from everyone?

(2) How can those who choose to lead influence others to perform more effectively and efficiently than they ever thought possible?

(3) How can leaders continue to be successful when the environment in which they lead is constantly changing?

Addressing these challenges requires a certain awareness and nimbleness on behalf of the person thinking and acting as the “leader,” regardless of their formal position.

The Manager as Leader presents practical strategies, tools, and techniques for developing the leadership mindset and applying it on a daily basis.

The book introduces the “Contextual Leadership Model,” which identifies nine fundamental leadership roles and six common contexts in which leadership is exercised, and guides readers toward matching their roles and actions to the particular context at hand; it also shows readers how to anticipate changes in context and adjust their roles and actions accordingly.

Packed with illustrative examples, diagnostic tools, worksheets, and other interactive elements, and featuring an extensive listing of resources, The Manager as Leader is a hands-on guide to the art of leadership, whether you are an executive, manager, supervisor, or aspiring leader anywhere in the organization

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ISBN-0275989852

From meetings to training exercises to brainstorming sessions, managers are called upon to lead groups–defining goals and tasks, creating a climate of mutual support, and bridging differences among members to collaborate and innovate.

Drawing from their extensive research, teaching, and practical application in the field of counseling and group dynamics, the authors show readers how to master the role of “facilitator”–one who engages others in dialogue, resolves conflicts, and steers groups toward collective solutions.

From leading project teams to getting buy-in for new policy recommendations, managers will develop the skills that can be applied in many contexts, wherever people are working in groups, ultimately contributing to greater awareness and understanding of different points of view.

Featuring diagnostic exercises, worksheets, examples, and an extensive listing of resources, The Manager as Facilitator will provide individuals and teams with the tools to promote effective communication, capitalize on diversity, and improve productivity.

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ISBN-0275990184

A manager has more opportunity to directly motivate employees than does any other organizational influence.

Conversely, research reveals that de-motivating managers are the primary reason employees voluntarily leave.

Managers set the tone, translate organizational strategy into employee performance and developmental plans, provide the carrots and the sticks to achieve those plans, and in virtually every other way reinforce–for better or worse–the cultural attitudes of the organization.

The Manager as Motivator explores the dynamics of motivation, especially in the context of today’s complex and fluid work enivronments, where retention of top-performing employees is paramount.

Integrating insights from management and psychology, the author covers such issues as the development of a free-agent workforce, with talent following supply and demand; the emergence of employees as the only true sustainable advantage; and the opportunities and challenges that managers face in their role as motivators, especially when they themselves are wrestling with limited resources and competing demands.

Featuring diagnostic exercises, case examples, checklists, and other interactive elements, the book addresses common myths and misconceptions about motivation (such as the popular focus on “charismatic” leaders) and offers readers many practical tools for becoming more effective motivators–and measuring the positive results.