HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People

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.

This is a great book. I got it to read for one of my classes in Moody Bible Institute for my masters and nonprofit administration leadership. I also do recommend e-book so much better for the environment and easier to access electronically.

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

Love that these are condensed and packaged. Got this for my boss for a holiday gift.

This book is collection of articles published in HBR that are still relevant today. Technology progressed but people, psychology and organizational behavior is still the same. Reading "Setup to Fail" paper one may remember instances in their career where they setup somebody for failure. It is truly empowering. For seasoned managers, it may offer some fresh insights into why people behave the way they do. All in all, good purchase.

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!

The information is organized wonderfully to not overwhelm you. The information is bite sized with examples and with a game plan for. I’ve been using the tips from the book and have seen it successfully create synergy with my team members.

As a new manager, I'm looking for resources to help me better manage my team. This is a great book that provides some really great advice. Nothing in here is earth-shattering -- but it's great, standard material that will help a new manager blaze a path forward.

I really recommended it. If you manage to read it, it can be a game changer for you and your team.

All good

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.

This book as most other HBR'S 10 Must Reads series is a good read having all the best articles about managing people specifically. I would recommend this book to anybody who is about to manage people, or is already managing people and has trouble with it.

Exactly what is said and illustrated!