Becoming a Successful Manager : How to Make a Smooth Transition from Managing Yourself to Managing Others

by Jack H. Grossman

Becoming a Successful Manager provides hands-on exercises and advice to help neophyte managers make the difficult transition from managing only themselves to managing others. It shows new managers how to create a positive, productive environment, one that motivates and brings out the best in employees while providing maximum benefit to their employers.

Genres: Leadership, Nonfiction, Business, Management

208 pages, Paperback

First published October 22, 2001

Reviews

[Shanti]

It's a good start to understand the role of a manager. The examples of various situations make it also easy to understand how you can handle certain aspects you will definitely encountered in this role.

[Martine Delannoy]

This book is a useful start book on team management. Experienced managers will recognize many situations.

[Bill Malone]

I recommend this to anyone becoming a new manager or aspiring to become one. I would encourage my staff to read it too. I think the chapters on listening and asking questions are as useful as any because they apply outside of the book's topic. The final chapters are worth reading as they cover performance reviews and conducting productive meetings and delegating instead of micromanaging. Though I wish more of the examples were set in the work place and not at home.

[Allison]

Basic generic advice for the new manager, geared toward a corporate environment. Coupled with the three-day management training class I had a few weeks ago, I feel better prepared in my new role, and no longer as terrified as I once was. Information is quite general though, and I could benefit from some advice more specific to my field.

[Heidi]

Good managment ideas, sometimes in these managment books I feel that often times they same ideas are stressed and re stressed then a new managment book comes out and they are stressed again. I read this book in prep for an interview and it's a good summation of major managment tactics

[Sara]

Can I give zero stars? I found this book boring and completely unhelpful. I only finished it to check off an educational requirement at work.

[Lori Grant]

A should-read book new managers, executives, and entrepreneurs.

[Rana]

Its an amazing book and gives you great guide to being a powerful manager