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The Manager's Handbook: Five Simple Steps to Build a Team, Stay Focused, Make Better Decisions, and Crush Your Competition
An actionable strategy guide for busy professionals who want to level up their management game
In The Manager's Handbook, Stanford Graduate School of Business faculty member, serial entrepreneur, and investor in over 100 companies, David Dodson, delivers an insightful work that describes, in highly practical detail, five skills every great manager needs to know if they want to get things done.
Managers desperately want a crisp, how-to book that will show them-in one single title-the way to master the most important skills necessary to run an organization. The Manager's Handbook organizes the five essential skills of effective implementation into one, simple-to-read, easy-to-use, book. The Manager's Handbook is an essential playbook for managers, executives, board members, and other business leaders interested in dramatically improving their ability to lead people and inspire loyalty.
In the book, you'll learn how to get better at running any kind of organization by breaking down each essential skill into bite-sized sub-skills you can easily and quickly learn. You'll also find:
Digestible tips and tactics for hiring the best people, onboarding, performance feedback, and improving the performance of underachieversA model script for how to begin an exit interviewWays to let people go from your organization gracefully, quickly, and with compassionThe Manager's Handbook is an essential playbook for managers, executives, board members, and other business leaders interested in dramatically improving their ability to lead people and inspire loyalty.
In The Manager's Handbook, Stanford Graduate School of Business faculty member, serial entrepreneur, and investor in over 100 companies, David Dodson, delivers an insightful work that describes, in highly practical detail, five skills every great manager needs to know if they want to get things done.
Managers desperately want a crisp, how-to book that will show them-in one single title-the way to master the most important skills necessary to run an organization. The Manager's Handbook organizes the five essential skills of effective implementation into one, simple-to-read, easy-to-use, book. The Manager's Handbook is an essential playbook for managers, executives, board members, and other business leaders interested in dramatically improving their ability to lead people and inspire loyalty.
In the book, you'll learn how to get better at running any kind of organization by breaking down each essential skill into bite-sized sub-skills you can easily and quickly learn. You'll also find:
Digestible tips and tactics for hiring the best people, onboarding, performance feedback, and improving the performance of underachieversA model script for how to begin an exit interviewWays to let people go from your organization gracefully, quickly, and with compassionThe Manager's Handbook is an essential playbook for managers, executives, board members, and other business leaders interested in dramatically improving their ability to lead people and inspire loyalty.
Readers Top Reviews
VTGVTGCaitlynCait
I cannot recommend this book more. It has helped me to continuously evolve the ways I manage a growing enterprise. Easily the most practical managerial book out there. Luka
blakemVTGVTGCaitl
I work with a lot of up and coming entrepreneurs. This will be required reading for them all. A simple yet effective guide for business leaders to accomplish their goals. Great book, highly recommended.
Susan L.blakemVTG
I've read lots of management books but none are as straightforward, practical and actionable. Dodson's own experiences draws on his extensive personal know-how. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to manage a team or group. Best management book I've read. Thank you David Dodson.
Omar ShayaSusan L
I had the honor of learning directly from David Dodson during my time at Stanford Business School. David brings decades of management experience and distills it in easy-to-follow frameworks. His class is cited the most by students as the one that they review the notes from the most after business school. As a founder, I leverage the learnings from the book every day to run a successful and enduring business. Can't recommend it enough if you are a founder, executive, middle manager, or aspiring manager.
Alexei DunawayOma
I read a lot of leadership and management books - I'm an executive coach, and it's my business to do so. Many if not most sadly stay at 30,000" and as a result leave you with a good feeling about a new general framework you've learned, but no clear way to apply it in your day-to-day. Not so in The Manager's Handbook. Dodson does a detailed job of helping managers understand the specific behaviors that they need to focus on, as well as practical steps of HOW they should go about doing it. From hiring to firing and everything in between, Dodson offers questions to consider, language to use, checklists to track, and templates to follow. This is not only management theory, it's management practice. And it's excellent. Recommend 100%!
