Recommend me some books on people management?
nick205 - 17/8/13 at 02:27 PM
Looking for some recommend reading on people management?
Specifically, I am asked to lead a team of 3 engineers and 3 sales people.
Dick Axtell - 17/8/13 at 02:51 PM
"Understanding Organizations", by Charles Handy, ISBN 0-14-015603-8.
Stuff by Henry Mintzberg, e.g. "Structures in Fives".
Hector.Brocklebank - 17/8/13 at 04:06 PM
Surely if those that asked you to do the job, believe you can do it already based on your experience, possibly their previous knowledge of you etc
etc.
So just working on that you can probably already do it without the need of a bloody book.
tegwin - 17/8/13 at 04:26 PM
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Originally posted by Hector.Brocklebank
So just working on that you can probably already do it without the need of a bloody book.
Are you saying that learning new skills and ideas is a bad thing?
ianm67 - 17/8/13 at 06:25 PM
This is excellent:
http://free-download-guide-management-ebooks.com/books/16876-the-90-minute-manager-by-chris-brady-david-bolchover.html#.Ug--yvtwaUk
HTH,
IanM
TimC - 17/8/13 at 06:53 PM
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Originally posted by Dick Axtell
"Understanding Organizations", by Charles Handy, ISBN 0-14-015603-8.
Beat me to it. Handy by name....
steve m - 17/8/13 at 07:03 PM
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=management+for+dummies&tag=mh0a9-21&index=aps&hvadid=3171115256&ref=pd_sl_6okwvgcoxb_e
Shame the cnuts I work for have not read it !!
nick205 - 18/8/13 at 02:23 AM
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Originally posted by tegwin
quote:
Originally posted by Hector.Brocklebank
So just working on that you can probably already do it without the need of a bloody book.
Are you saying that learning new skills and ideas is a bad thing?
I believe I can do it, but want to do the best I can for mine and their sakes.
Learning will help me do it better!
nick205 - 18/8/13 at 02:25 AM
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Originally posted by steve m
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=management+for+dummies&tag=mh0a9-21&index=aps&hvadid=3171115256&ref=pd_sl_6okwvgcoxb_e
Shame the cnuts I work for have not read it !!
Exactly the sentiment I want to avoid creating in those I'm working with 
nick205 - 18/8/13 at 02:26 AM
Thanks for the suggestion s BTW very useful!
theduck - 18/8/13 at 08:03 AM
The one minute manager books are all very good and a good quick hit. Another good one is fish. Lastly, if you want a big read, how to manage is also
very good.
Hector.Brocklebank - 18/8/13 at 08:14 AM
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Originally posted by tegwin
Are you saying that learning new skills and ideas is a bad thing?
Not at all, but sometimes you need to have the confidence in your own skills and follow your gut, some things cant be gleaned from the written word
only life experience can teach you some things, people skills and how to handle the curve balls will usually be handled in the way you conduct your
personal life, this is natural.
In my own experience, I'm having to rebuild my teams self esteem and confidence in their own abilities, as my predecessor was by all accounts a
jurassic tyrant, control freak who liked to keep a tight reign on things.... the guys in the workshop are broken, operating like machines afraid to
think, my secretary is coming to me and asking permission to undertake very menial tasks, and is surprised when i ask her to do some things, with the
reply " i was never allowed to do that before"
The previous guy retired after 35 years in the job, he liked to control things so much that he called me with a list of do's & don'ts
and how I should run things.
I politely thanked him for his advice put the phone down and pi**ed myself laughing as I now understood first hand why my team are the mess they are
and that with the way I run things and treating people the way I do at work, It will be very easy for me to steer them in such a way that we can work
together as a happy team as his past treatment of them & his past modus operandi means I can metaphorically have them eating out of my hand.
Nick by all means buy a book if its the type of thing to give you confidence your doing it the right way, but I think as a manager/leader what ever
you want to call it, you need to have confidence (and be seen to have confidence) in your own abilities.
Regards
[Edited on 18/8/2013 by Hector.Brocklebank]