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Management Bytes: Ten Essential Skills for Technical Managers

The essentials of the management job that no one told you how to do. Get the low-down from time management to interviewing to effective meetings and down-right impressive presentations. It's a job—you can learn it!

Table of Contents

Are Your Pants on Fire?
The Manager's Job Description
Part I Communicate
1 Communicating One-to-One: Walkie Talkie Management
2 Routing Information: A Network Upgrade
Part II Direct
3 Setting Goals and Delegation: Goal-Tending in the Pro Leagues
4 Motivating: Go Team, Go!
Part III Support
5 Prioritizing: I Don't Have Tim to Manage My Time!
6 Monitoring: Coaching the Team
7 Evaluating: Performance Reviews Can Actually Work
8 Resolving Conflict: Simplifying the Conflict Equation
Part IV: Supply
9 Developing: Building from the Inside Out
10 Hiring: You Want to Be What Kind of Tree?
Appendices
1 Nonverbal Communication
2 The Mechanics of Business Writing
3 Business Writing Examples
4 Meeting Mechanics
5 Presentation Mechanics
6 Interviewing Resources
Further Reading
Index

(323 pages)

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Management Bytes 2.0: The Essence of Technical Leadership

Managing people is a complex job, but the approach is simple. Learn the secrets to getting results, increasing productivity, and improving workplace quality of life. Using the Make-Easy Management model you'll learn to manage human behavior, reward, correct, and redirect, build better teams, and evaluate performance. And through it all you'll practice the simple secret to getting results. It's about arriving, not just driving.

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