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The one primer you need to develop your managerial and leadership skills. Whether you're a new manager or looking to have more influence (read more)

The one primer you need to develop your managerial and leadership skills. Whether you're a new manager or looking to have more influence in your current management role, the challenges you face come in all shapes and sizes--a direct report's anxious questions, your boss's last-minute assignment of an important presentation, or a blank business case staring you in the face. To reach your full potential in these situations, you need to master a new set of business and personal skills.

Packed with step-by-step advice and wisdom from Harvard Business Review's management archive, the HBR Manager's Handbook provides best practices on topics from understanding key financial statements and the fundamentals of strategy to emotional intelligence and building your employees' trust. The book's brief sections allow you to home in quickly on the solutions you need right away--or take a deeper dive if you need more context. Keep this comprehensive guide with you throughout your career and be a more impactful leader in your organization.
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If you read nothing else on managing yourself and your career, read these definitive articles from Harvard Business Review. As we (read more)

If you read nothing else on managing yourself and your career, read these definitive articles from Harvard Business Review. As we live and work longer, we're reinventing ourselves, sometimes several times through the course of our career. How can we balance our work with our other interests and commitments? How can we continue to learn and grow and expand our skills? HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself and Your Career Collection features the best thinking from Harvard Business Review to help you build your emotional strength and resilience, keep your skills fresh, cultivate a learning mindset, make the right career moves, navigate setbacks, and achieve high performance.

Included in this six-book set are:
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Mental Toughness
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Career Resilience
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Lifelong Learning
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself, Vol. 2

The collection includes sixty articles selected by HBR's editors from renowned thought leaders including Clayton M. Christensen, Herminia Ibarra, Rob Cross, and Laura Morgan Roberts plus the indispensable article "What Makes a Leader" by Daniel Goleman. (hide)

Are you complying with health and safety regulations in the workplace? Making mistakes in many areas of health and safety can be (read more)

Are you complying with health and safety regulations in the workplace? Making mistakes in many areas of health and safety can be both incredibly dangerous and hugely costly. So what can you do to avoid hazards and expensive, time-consuming legal battles? That's where Health & Safety at Work For Dummies comes in. Cutting through the clutter, it provides you with the practical, must-know information you need to ensure your workplace is a suitably safe environment that complies with government health and safety rules and regulations.

Did you know that in 2014, 1.2 million working people suffered from work-related illnesses, 2,535 mesothelioma deaths occurred due to past asbestos exposure and 133 workers were killed on the job? The list goes on and the statistics are staggering. Health & Safety at Work For Dummies shows you how to keep your employees safe from becoming another statistic in this frightening data. Arming you with critical information needed to adhere to health and safety regulations, it offers expert guidance on managing and implementing health and safety in your business, controlling workplace risks, going the extra mile in following orders and much more. (hide)

Complete your leadership toolkit with this inside look at high-level, executive positions Hidden Truths: What Leaders Need to Hear (read more)

Complete your leadership toolkit with this inside look at high-level, executive positions Hidden Truths: What Leaders Need to Hear But Are Rarely Told delivers profound and rarely discussed insights about C-suite jobs that provide aspiring leaders with practical, new skills that will equip them for the immense challenges of their desired jobs. Through 14 illuminating chapters, accomplished Harvard Business School faculty member and former Senior Partner of McKinsey & Company sets out the essential habits that help leaders create success, time and time again. (hide)

Every year, millions of applications stream to a handful of companies that regularly top the listings of best employers: Apple, Netflix, (read more)

Every year, millions of applications stream to a handful of companies that regularly top the listings of best employers: Apple, Netflix, Amazon, Alphabet, Disney, SpaceX, Oracle, PricewaterhouseCoopers and others. In 2017, Tesla received as many as 200 applications for each vacancy, making it ten times more selective than Harvard. The only way to choose who to hire is with uniquely demanding questions that test imagination, persistence and creativity.

Questions like:How is a milk carton like a plane seat? Why don't animals have wheels? What would happen if you drilled a hole all the way through the Earth and jumped in it? (hide)

World-leading productivity expert Graham Allcott's businessbible is given a complete update for 2019. Do you waste too much time (read more)

World-leading productivity expert Graham Allcott's businessbible is given a complete update for 2019. Do you waste too much time on your phone? Scroll throughTwitter or Instagram when you should be getting down to your real tasks? Isyour attention easily distracted? We've got the solution: The Way of theProductivity Ninja. In the age of information overload, traditional timemanagement techniques simply don't cut it anymore.
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Don't just be a good manager... be an even better one. For current and aspiring managers alike, this bestselling handbook from expert (read more)

Don't just be a good manager... be an even better one. For current and aspiring managers alike, this bestselling handbook from expert author Michael Armstrong provides a whistle-stop tour of the skills and techniques you need to succeed.

With a focus on practical application, you will be guided through four crucial areas of management:-Managing people-Management activities and processes-Management personal skills-Business and financial skills (hide)

Your first job. It's a daunting prospect isn't it? But it doesn't need to be. Whether you are on your first Saturday shift, about (read more)

Your first job. It's a daunting prospect isn't it? But it doesn't need to be.

Whether you are on your first Saturday shift, about to start an apprenticeship or climbing the leadership ladder, this is your indispensable guide to surviving and thriving at work. In this insightful, informative and funny book, founding CEO Lucy Clayton and education policy advisor Steven Haines show us what really matters and how to make the best beginning. From dealing with your mistakes to celebrating your successes, from making an impression on day one to building your resilience and protecting your values - How to Go to Work is packed full of all the vital advice you need to jump-start your fledgling career. (hide)

How to Organize Yourself will help you to dramatically improve the way you work. With great tips on how to determine your goals, (read more)

How to Organize Yourself will help you to dramatically improve the way you work. With great tips on how to determine your goals, prioritize your tasks and manage your time, it also includes practical advice on how to: focus on the things that produce results; overcome distractions; build positive work habits; avoid information overload and make effective use of technology. Updated for 2019, this 6th edition now features even more practical exercises, useful templates, and top tips to help you get organized, as well as content on how to deal with the ubiquitous presence of smartphones and adapt to the ever increasing scope for interruption and procrastination in our 24/7 lives. (hide)

Your CV, cover letter and LinkedIn profile are your first communication with a prospective employer. As the job market is more competitive (read more)

Your CV, cover letter and LinkedIn profile are your first communication with a prospective employer. As the job market is more competitive than ever, grabbing an employer's attention and making the right first impression has never been more important. If you compromise on the quality of your CV, cover letter and LinkedIn profile, you reduce your chances of winning an interview.
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