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. In this book you'll find:

- step-by-step guidance through common managerial tasks

- self-assessments throughout

- exercises and templates to help you practice and apply the concepts in the book

- concise explanations of the latest research and thinking on important management skills from Harvard Business Review experts such as Dan Goleman, Clayton Christensen, John Kotter, and Michael Porter

- real-life stories from working managers

© 2024 Ascent Audio (Audiobook): 9781663725080

Release date

Audiobook: February 27, 2024