Management

Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it be a business, a not-for-profit organization, or government body. Management includes the activities of setting the strategy of an organization and coordinating the efforts of its employees or volunteers to accomplish its objectives through the application of available resources, such as financial, natural, technological, and human resources. The term "management" may also refer to the people who manage an organization.

Management is also an academic discipline, a social science whose objective is to study social orga
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Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect
Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better
Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
Strong Ground: The Lessons of Daring Leadership, the Tenacity of Paradox, and the Wisdom of the Human Spirit
Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results
The 6 Types of Working Genius
My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future
How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between
Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less (Revised and Updated)
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away
Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most
When McKinsey Comes to Town
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
High Output Management
The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
The One Minute Manager
The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (Harperbusiness Essentials)
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
Measure What Matters
It Always Begins With Leadership by Milton DohoneyEVOLVE or Be Slaughtered by Derrick ChevalierFrom Ashes to Influence by Stacy WinsettCEO-Stories by Michael EastwoodThe Box is Time by Raymond A Costabile
Leadership / Management Reads
38 books — 110 voters
It Always Begins With Leadership by Milton DohoneyA Higher Standard by Ann DunwoodyEVOLVE or Be Slaughtered by Derrick ChevalierFrom Ashes to Influence by Stacy WinsettDare to Think Differently by Gerald Zaltman
Books on Leadership
251 books — 294 voters

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. CoveyHow Women Rise by Sally HelgesenRight-Sizing Strategic Financial Management for Small Business by Michael Stephen BorishLean In by Sheryl SandbergThe CodeBreaker Mindset by Chitra Nawbatt
The People's Library for Success
562 books — 867 voters
CEO-Stories by Michael EastwoodCracking The Rich Code Volume 20 by Diane Merrill WiggintonLeadership by Craig B. WheldenIt Always Begins With Leadership by Milton DohoneyStrengths Finder 2.0 by Tom Rath
Leaders at See.Spark.Go
37 books — 23 voters


Pooja Agnihotri
“ Organizational structure and management style are those two factors that we always forget to analyze when the performance of our businesses goes down. ”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

Paul Hawken
“ Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. ”
― Paul Hawken

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