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books about: manager

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Leadership and the One Minute Manager: Increasing Effectiveness Through Situational Leadership

Ken Blanchard, Patricia Zigarmi, ...

William Morrow, 1985

Leadership and the One Minute Manager
I purchased these books so that our boss could hand them out as Christmas presents and they arrived right on time for our Christmas party. The books came in excellent condition and the price was a good one. Thank you for prompt delivery. I will purchase from you ...

First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman

Simon & Schuster, 1999

First Break All The Rules
Very interesting perspective on how top managers operate. Plants seeds of change and presents how why what has been done in the past and currently practiced may have not been effective and ultimately successful as we have all been told it would be. Highly recommended ...

The Dream Manager

Matthew Kelly

Hyperion, 2007

The dream manager changed my life
Being in a management position, I thought the book was supposed to teach me how to be the dream manager. I soon found out that it is much better than I expected. It teaches you to start dreaming again. The reason why people are so miserable at work is because they do ...

The Three Signs of a Miserable Job: A Fable for Managers (And Their Employees)

Patrick M. Lencioni

Jossey-Bass, 2007

Easy Read and well worth it
Lencioni always writes a good, easy to read story that helps make sense of the workplace. It's a simple story that is well written and is essential to better management.

Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators

Patrick M. Lencioni

Jossey-Bass, 2005

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This field guide is execellent. It is practical and helpful. Improving teamwork is difficult, to say the least, especially for highly dysfunctional teams. Patrick Lencioni's book is essential to working through these challenges.

Head First PMP: A Brain-Friendly Guide to Passing the Project Management Professional Exam (Head First)

Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007

Makes Learning Fun
This is great fun book for a "Dry" subject. Has lots of pictures and cartoons which bring the FUN into studying.

PMP Exam Prep, Fifth Edition: Rita's Course in a Book for Passing the PMP Exam

Rita Mulcahy

RMC Publications, Inc., 2005

The book to prepare for PMP exam
During the last 5 years while I was thinking of taking PMP exam, I often heard that "Rita's book plus PMBOK" is all you need to pass the exam. Well, my own story of passing it on the first take is the combination of my own experience, common sense, Rita's book and NO ...

The One-Page Project Manager: Communicate and Manage Any Project With a Single Sheet of Paper

Clark A. Campbell

Wiley, 2006

Do you need a practical and useful book about Project Management?
This is your book. It is a nutshell of project management in a page. It will complement your other tools and techniques that you use currently, for improving your role. Also, if you don't know how start effectively with the project management, this book offers you a ...

The One Minute Manager

Kenneth H. Blanchard, Spencer Johnson

William Morrow, 1982

Good book short read
This is a great book to read, It makes you think about your management style. It does not take long to read an should make you a better manager at the same time. I highly recommend this to anyone who is a manager.

The Six Sigma Handbook: The Complete Guide for Greenbelts, Blackbelts, and Managers at All Levels, Revised ...

Thomas Pyzdek

McGraw-Hill, 2003

"Six Sigma: The Complete Guide..." Well worth the money!
As a former practitioner of Total Quality Management, Kaizen, Continuous Improvement, Just In Time, Total Productive Maintenance, etc. and, now, Six Sigma, I highly recommend the "Six Sigma: The Complete Guide..." to both newbie's wanting a broad and deep explanation ...

Microsoft® System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Administrator's Companion

Steven D. Kaczmarek, Microsoft System Center Team

Microsoft Press, 2008

Excellent Administrators Reference
Everything is easy to find and well laid out. A must have for trouble free deployment of configuration manager 2007.

Quick Team-Building Activities for Busy Managers: 50 Exercises That Get Results in Just 15 Minutes

Brian Cole Miller

AMACOM, 2003

Inspiration and Magic
a) This book delivers what it advertises: Quick team building activities. There's a surprising amount of variety and thought behind the book. It's organized and clear. The goals and methods are obvious. b) As with everything in life, the success of the ...

The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey

Kenneth H. Blanchard, William Oncken, ...

William Morrow & Company, 1991

"It's tough to work for a nervous boss; especially if you are the one who's making your boss nervous."
Solving problems (or as Blanchard refers to them... monkeys) is something everyone must get better at throughout life. Regardless if you are in the field of business, medical, or even in parenting, solving problems is a big part of being successful every day. That's ...

HR Answer Book, The: An Indispensable Guide for Managers and Human Resources Professionals

Shawn Smith, Rebecca Mazin

AMACOM, 2004

An Essential Desktop Reference
MBaumann, Cosmetics Executive, March 14, 2006, An Essential Desktop Reference A smart,informative, entertaining guide to a serious subject...filled with FAQs that you sometimes didn't even know you needed to ask! Quickly became an everyday reference that I turn to ...

System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed

Kerrie Meyler, Cameron Fuller, ...

Sams, 2008

The standard bearer for Operations Manager References
This is the most comprehensive OpsMgr book on the market. This book contains more real world information than the Microsoft white papers and runs circles around the Mastering Operations Manager offering. Operations Manager Unleashed offers excellent guidance for ...