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Manager''s Handbook - Five Simple Steps to Build a Team, Stay Focused, Make Better

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A WALL STREET JOURNAL AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER
 
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 underachievers
* A model script for how to begin an exit interview
* Ways to let people go from your organization gracefully, quickly, and with compassion
 
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.

List of contents

Foreword by H. Irving Grousbeck
 
Acknowledgements
 
Introduction: The Five Skills of Great Leaders
 
Part I: Commitment to Building a Team
 
Chapter 1 Hire for Outcomes
 
Chapter 2 The One Hundred Day Window
 
Chapter 3 Instant Performance Feedback
 
Chapter 4 The 360° Review
 
Chapter 5 Coaching Underperformance
 
Chapter 6 Breaking Up is Hard
 
Chapter 7 Never Waste a Last Goodbye
 
Part II: Fanatical Custodian of Time
 
Chapter 8 Activity Is Not Progress
 
Chapter 9 Make Your Day to Make Your Month
 
Chapter 10 Curing the Digital Disaster
 
Chapter 11 Seven Steps to Running a Great Meeting
 
Chapter 12 Delegating
 
Part III: Willingness to Seek and Take Advice
 
Chapter 13 Five Questions
 
Chapter 14 Finding and Using Mentors
 
Chapter 15 Executive Coaching
 
Chapter 16 A Board of Advisors
 
Part IV: Setting and Adhering to Priorities
 
Chapter 17 Key Performance Indicators
 
Chapter 18 The Operating Plan
 
Chapter 19 Alignment Through Compensation
 
Part V: An Obsession with Quality
 
Chapter 20 Quality Drives Profit
 
Chapter 21 Walk Behind the Tractor
 
Chapter 22 A Vow to Wow
 
Implementing The Five Skills of Great Leaders
 
Afterword by Irv Grousbeck
 
Notes
 
Index

About the author










DAVID DODSON is a successful serial entrepreneur, CEO, a board member of more than 40 companies, a former McKinsey & Company consultant, and an active investor in over 100 businesses. He is on the faculty of Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, where he draws on his real-world experience to guide students in tactical execution. He is a recent recipient of the MSx Teaching Excellence Award, and co-founder of Sanku, which has improved the health of over 5 million people across rural East Africa.

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A WALL STREET JOURNAL AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER

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 underachievers
* A model script for how to begin an exit interview
* Ways to let people go from your organization gracefully, quickly, and with compassion

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.

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