Learning what it means to be a manager -- Setting the stage -- Reconciling expectations -- Moving toward a managerial identity -- Developing interpersonal judgment -- Exercising authority -- Managing subordinates' performance -- Confronting the personal side of management -- Gaining...

A compilation of HBR's "Manager's Tip of the Day," this book is a guide for both emerging leaders and seasoned veterans. Organized into three categories-- managing yourself, managing your team, managing your business-- the book teaches the soft and hard skills that are required to succeed in the...

A good send-off -- A victim of downsizing -- A work prenup -- Acting the part -- Action and reaction -- Alumni activities -- Assessing management potential -- Boss intolerance -- Capacity and performance -- Change -- Computer pains -- Cupid among the cubicles -- Don't feed the trolls -- Double...

"What makes your company great today, however, won't necessarily make it great tomorrow. Evolving is critical to long-term corporate performance and health. Humankind's greatest invention isn't the wheel, it is organization: people working together towards a goal that is beyond what can be...