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Understanding the concepts of Management starts with understanding the fundamentals. On your way to mastery, it's crucial for you to understand how certain concepts were derived, and why things work like they do. Starting with these resources is the best way to do so.
Leaders Eat Last' by Simon Sinek is a thought-provoking book on how great leaders create a circle of safety in the workplace, inspiring trust, cooperation, and peak performance. He explains how a leader putting the needs of the team first can create a culture of success.
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Creativity, Inc. is a manual for anyone who strives for originality and the first-ever, all-access trip into the nerve center of Pixar Animation—into the meetings, postmortems, and “Braintrust” sessions where some of the most successful films in history are made.
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The Culture Code explores how highly successful groups work together to build cohesive, motivated cultures and achieve greatness. Author Daniel Coyle uses real-life examples and case studies to illustrate the book's three main lessons: 1) creating belonging, 2) sharing vulnerability, and 3) esta…
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“The One Minute Manager” teaches us that it's enough to let people know what you want from them, and give them immediate feedback. You don't have to choose between achieving results and staying human: these are actually two sides of the same coin. And sometimes, being effective takes literally o…
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Bill is an IT manager at Parts Unlimited. It's Tuesday morning and on his drive into the office, Bill gets a call from the CEO. The company's new IT initiative, code named Phoenix Project, is critical to the future of Parts Unlimited, but the project is massively over budget and very late. The C…
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The Chimp Paradox by Prof Steve Peters is a self-help book that delves into the workings of the human brain. It introduces the concept of the "inner chimp" and provides practical strategies for managing impulsive behavior and emotional responses.
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These books are not required for you to learn Management, but they are highly recommended for you to deepen your knowledge.
Get a Grip on Your Business, Gino Wickman shows how data supports your company's ability to have productive discussions and decision-making. You should run your company and respective departments using a handful of metrics to indicate the present, identify potential issues, and forecast the futu…
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Lean startup is an approach to building new businesses based on the belief that entrepreneurs must investigate, experiment, test and iterate as they develop products. The concept of Lean startup originated in the early 2000s and evolved into a methodology around 2010.
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Multipliers are leaders who encourage growth and creativity from their workers, while Diminishers are those who hinder and otherwise keep their employees' productivity at a minimum. The authors give what they consider to be solutions and guidance to the issues they bring up in the book.
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Don't Make Me Think is a book by Steve Krug about human–computer interaction and web usability. The book's premise is that a good software program or web site should let users accomplish their intended tasks as easily and directly as possible.
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One of the world's most influential living management thinkers, Charles Handy has year-after-year been listed alongside business gurus including Peter Drucker and Tom Peters in the prestigious Thinkers 50 list. His views on management -- and life -- have inspired and enlightened others for decad…
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