Bare Knuckle People Management

Creating Success with the Team You Have? Winners, Losers, Misfits, and All

By: Sean O'Neil, John Kulisek

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

One of the biggest challenges for new managers is how to get the best out of each of their team members so they achieve superior results—and make you, the new manager, look good! In Bare Knuckle People Management, authors Sean O’Neil and John Kulisek cut through the crap to show managers how to push their teams to success, not by following fluffy leadership training but by using the skills that got them promoted in the first place.

Forget kumbayas or one-minute managing. The best people managers know that approaches that work great with one employee will be lost on the next. With the same irreverent and straightforward style they use in their management-training workshops, O'Neil and Kulisek describe the 16 basic worker types you must learn to recognize, from The Badass to The Burnout, and how to customize your leadership style for each type. The authors encourage listeners to take pieces of what works from each of the sections, and they also remind them to follow the gut instinct that got them to their new management position in the first place.

Written in short, easily digestible sections, and both entertaining and insightful throughout, Bare Knuckle People Management is perfect for any manager pressed for time and in need of some straightforward advice.

©2011 Sean O'Neil, John Kulisek (P)2011 Gildan Media Corp

Critic reviews

" Bare Knuckle People Management is a clever, straight-forward, practical guide to understanding and managing each of your people to get the most out of them. A refreshing break from 'leadership books' that insist the key to management success is a one-size-fits-all formula. Finally, a book that speaks directly to the manager for the real world." (Christopher Heck, Senior Vice President of the National Basketball Association)

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What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

could not listen to this book at all. i could not bear to keep listening to the style of reading by erik. very annoying the way he complete each sentence with a slur . very very annoying

What didn’t you like about Erik Synnestvedt’s performance?

i would not be able to listen to another narration by him. i shall keep his name in mind..

bkpm w is awesome

I loved it. I could have lived without all the cursing, then again, that may have made it more real.