The Manager's Handbook

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.

Auteur

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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PRAISE FOR The MANAGER'S HANDBOOK "The best book I've ever read on why some people are more effective at getting things done than others."
-LINDA HENRY, CEO, The Boston Globe "I attribute most of my success to recruiting people with high scores for 'GSD'- get shit done. This is the definitive guide to GSD."
-PAUL ENGLISH, Co-Founder, Kayak "Simply the desire to do things is not enough. The Manager's Handbook helps reveal the importance of joining the right strategy with excellent execution."
-MICHAEL PORTER, Professor, Harvard Business School and author of Competitive Advantage "Business success is 1% insight and 99% implementation. Dodson puts the 99% in what will become the playbook for anyone serious about accomplishing anything."
-WALTER ROBB, Former Co-CEO, Whole Foods Market "Dodson does not waste a single word. He packs a dozen business books, and a two-year MBA program, into one book."
-BRIAN SPALY, Co-Founder, Bonobos "Dodson unmasks in a single book the practical skills that separate those who flounder from those who drive results."
-ILENE JACOBS, Former Executive Vice President for Human Resources, Fidelity Investments "I wish I'd had this book early in my career. It thoughtfully captures many hard-earned life lessons in one place. This is not a book to read, it's a book to use."
-WALTER BORST, Former Treasurer, General Motors Company, and Chief Financial Officer, Navistar "Why didn't someone give me this book twenty years ago!"
-AMY ERRETT, Founder and CEO, Madison-Reed

Résumé
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.

Contenu

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