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Top Ten Business Management Books: | | 1. | Rules of Management: The Definitive Guide to Managerial Success Richard Templar Product Description Some people seem to be naturally great managers. They glide effortlessly onwards and upwards through all the politics, the system, the people problems, the impossible targets, the work overload and all the nonsense that goes on. They say the right thing; do the right thing and know how to handle very situation. Is there something they do that we don’t? Is it a natural ability or something we could all learn? Is there a secret to managerial success? Yes...and all is revealed in The Rules of Management. These rules cover how you relate to people and how you conduct yourself. They underpin all of your behaviour and your actions. This is the book for you if you want to be successful and still be able to live with yourself, sleep nights and be regarded as a thoroughly nice person by your team, your colleagues and your boss. The Rules of Management is written in a light, entertaining, easy-to-read style that is easy to dip into, accessible and informative. This is a practical book with lots of good advice, common sense, examples, workable tips and hints to make your managerial life smooth and effective. | 
| | 2. | Small Business Management and Entrepreneurship David Stokes & Nicholas Wilson Product Synopsis Now in its 5th edition, this comprehensive, practically focused and highly accessible text explores the contexts, choices and strategies facing the small business venture, including extensive coverage of planning a new venture. Pedagogical features developed in response to market feedback include running case material to explore the same case situation from a number of different but interrelated angles, annotated further reading, new chapter-end real world case studies, learning objectives and linked chapter summaries providing a student- and lecturer-friendly learning environment. Students on modules such as Personal Development and Effectiveness, Study Skills, Management Skills, Business Skills, Business Communication, Business Awareness, Managing Oneself and Others at for example BABS/BABA, HND/HNC, DMS, MBA levels will all find this a hugely valuable text through study and working life. | 
| | 3. | How to Manage Jo Owen Product Description Being a manager today is more complex than ever before. Managers need to be clever, have great people skills and be politically savvy. And there’s no training manual which tells you what you really want to know: how to make things happen, how to survive and how to succeed in today’s world. Until now, managers have had to discover the rules of success on their own. How to Manage is set to change this: it is the ultimate how-to of management. Based on years of management experience and practice, it shows you what you have to do and how you have to do it in 30 simple steps. From making decisions to managing money and people, How to Manage covers all the political, rational and people skills you need. If you're only going to read one book on management ever, this is it. Customer Review "This could easily be the best book on management so far... an entertaining and instructive guide... If you know of an aspiring manager, give them this as a present immediately. If that aspiring manager is you, head straight for the bookshop or log on and obtain this essential survival manual... It is hard valuable advice thatr you will not regret reading and putting into practice." Personnel Today | 
| | 4. | Guide to Management Ideas and Gurus Tim Hindle Product Synopsis Developed from the "Guide to Management Ideas" this new book not only includes the most significant ideas that have and continue to underpin the management of business but it also includes entries on the most influential business thinkers of the past and present. Entries on ideas include: Active Inertia; Disruptive Technology; Genchi Genbutsu (Japanese for "Go and See for Yourself"); The Halo Effect; The Long Tail; Pareto Principle; Six Sigma; Skunkworks; SWOT analysis; Thin Slicing; Tipping Point; and, Triple Bottom Line. Among management gurus, the following are included: Igor Ansoff; Warren Bennis; Dale Carnegie; Alfred Chandler; Jim Collins; Stephen Covey; W. Edwards Deming; Peter Drucker; Henri Fayol; Sumantra Ghoshal; Gary Hamel; Michael Hammer; Charles Handy; Geert Hofstede; Joseph Juran; Rosabeth Moss Kanter; Robert Kaplan; Philip Kotler; Theodore Levitt; J Abraham Maslow; Konosuke Matsushita; Elton Mayo; Douglas McGregor; Henry Mintzberg; Kenichi Ohmae; C. Northcote Parkinson; Tom Peters; Michael Porter; E.F. Schumacher; Peter Senge; Herbert Simon; Alfred Sloan; F. Winslow Taylor; Alvin Toffler; and, Robert Townsend. | 
| | 5. | Management Stripped Bare: What They Don't Teach You at Business School Jo Owen Customer Review Management Stripped Bare succeeds where so many management books fail. Jo Owen avoids the preaching and pseudo-science common to his genre, providing instead a wonderfully engaging and humorous account of the business world. With the use of case studies, Jo Owen separates the true from the merely seemingly true, providing useful tips gleaned from his own considerable experience. Management Stripped Bare contains all that I wished that I had known before presenting to CEOs! | 
| | 6. | The New Manager's Handbook: 24 Lessons for Mastering Your New Role Morey Stettner Product Synopsis The New Manager's Handbook provides 24 lessons for mastering your new role. You've been promoted to manager - and that puts you in a whole different ballgame. From difficult employees to demanding bosses, you never know where your next problem is coming from. What you do know is that you'll be expected to solve that problem - and solve it quickly and effectively. The New Manager's Handbook explains the rules of this new game, and gives you invaluable tips and pointers for teaming with your employees while inspiring them to breakthrough performance and results. Let the two dozen rules and guidelines in this quick-hitting manual show you the best ways to: delegate review performance; think strategically; lead great meetings; give and get results-oriented feedback; provide direction; speak with power; criticize with honesty and tact; ask the right questions; motivate average performers; and prepare for change. As a new manager in today's no-room-for-error workplace, you will be challenged and tested every day. Unlike previous positions, however, your success will judged by the performance of others. Give yourself every opportunity to succeed, and learn how to win the respect of both your employees and your supervisors, with the time-tested and field-proven techniques in The New Manager's Handbook. | 
| | 7. | A Manager's Guide to Self Development Mike Pedler, John Burgoyne & Tom Boydell Product Synopsis A Manager's Guide to Self-Development has become the indispensable guide for building management skills. Now in its fifth edition the book details a self-development program aimed at helping readers improve their managerial performance, advance their careers and realize their full potential. It features 6 new activities including find a mentor, be a good coach, treat yourself well, coping with difficult situations, effective communication styles, and multiple intelligence. The book also features simplified diagnostic exercise to help you identify which are the best activities for you to follow; updated references and follow up activities throughout; and, improved layout design. Customer Review "This book is divided into two parts that enables either the potential, new or experienced manager to acquire the skills necessary for improving workplace performance. The first part allows the manager to understand their capabilities through fairly thought provoking tasks and questions. This section culminates in a useful questionnaire, from which the manager can ascertain his or her strength and weaknesses based on the eleven key qualities that managers should possess. This then leads into the second part of the book where the 49 activities for self-development can be taken either in order or individually, allowing you to focus on your weakest skills (as indicated in the questionnaire). At the end of the day this book is only as good as the practical use made of the tasks (and the learning strategy you develop), nevertheless it is well written and presented and should make a useful addition to most managers' bookshelves." | 
| | 8. | Management Theory and Practice G.A.Cole Customer Review "I borrowed this book from my local library in April, and 6 months later I'm still renewing it every 3 weeks! It's invaluable for my current management course. The book starts by discussing all the important theorists from Fayol, up to present day management thinking then going on to cover many other topics that appear in various University Diploma courses - industrial relations, strategies etc. The chapters are broken down into short, numbered paragraphs and most discussion is concise and to the point - no waffling. The book has many "homework" questions at the end of each chapter and basic answers at the back. It also has past exam questions - the answers to which can be obtained from the publisher should you require. Overall it's one of the best management books I've found - try it!" | 
| | 9. | The One Minute Manager Kenneth Blanchard & Spencer Johnson Book Description
The blockbuster Number 1 International Bestselling Phenomenon is back…not that it ever really went away. An easily-read story which quickly demonstrates three very practical management techniques, it also includes information on several studies in medicine and in the behavioural sciences, which help readers understand why these apparently simple methods work so well with so many people. The book is brief, the language is simple, and best of all…it works.
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Starting from the assumption that people are every company's most important resource, this book sets out three simple steps to getting the best from them and making every company run more efficiently. | 
| | 10. | Driving Down Cost: How to Manage and Cut Costs - Intelligently Andrew Wileman Product Description
This is the first accessible and practical book to address cost management in a general and holistic way for managers at every level and in every function. Driving Down Cost sets out a structured, practical approach to intelligent cost management, offering a toolkit of key ideas and cost management strategies, frameworks for analysing cost, and practical techniques for implementing cost-reduction programmes. Cost management is not an issue only for the CEO, or for senior management, or for technical specialists. Junior managers who are proactively tight on cost are learning good habits for the future, ones that will bring them recognition and advance their climb up the organizational chart. And cost management is relevant to private-sector businesses and public-sector organizations, and to managers in every function. You only need to engage in high-profile cost cutting if you haven t been effective at long-haul cost management.While this book does cover one-off cost reduction programmes, its main theme is what interests most managers a sustained cost management programme. In this timely book Andrew Wileman gives you the inside scoop on what has worked for him over years of consulting on costs. He looks at the smart ways cost can be created and the even more innovative ways they can be cut like getting your customers to do your work for you, or turning cost into revenue. Sometimes cost management is in fashion, sometimes it is out of vogue. As it happens, the US, the UK and other big Western economies are currently appearing shaky. A cost-cutting wave looks imminent and this book s theme seems prescient. But actually, timing does not and should not matter. In three or five years time growth will be back, but cost will still be critical. Cost management is not just for downturns, but for always. Visit www.drivingdowncost.net for further information. | 
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