The Effective Manager

By: Mark Horstman

Narrated by: Matthew Dudley

Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins

Publisher's summary

The how-to guide for exceptional management from the bottom up.

The Effective Manager is a hands-on practical guide to great management at every level. Written by the man behind Manager Tools, the world's number-one business podcast, this book distills the author's 25 years of management training expertise into clear, actionable steps to start taking today. First, you'll identify what "effective management" actually looks like: can you get the job done at a high level? Do you attract and retain top talent without burning them out? Then you'll dig into the four critical behaviors that make a manager great, and learn how to adjust your own behavior to be the leader your team needs. You'll learn the four major tools that should be a part of every manager's repertoire, how to use them, and even how to introduce them to the team in a productive, non-disruptive way.

Most management books are written for CEOs and geared toward improving corporate management, but this book is expressly aimed at managers of any level - with a behavioral framework designed to be tailored to your team's specific needs.

• Understand your team's strengths, weaknesses, and goals in a meaningful way
• Stop limiting feedback to when something goes wrong
• Motivate your people to continuous improvement
• Spread the work around and let people stretch their skills

Effective managers are good at the job and "good at people". The key is combining those skills to foster your team's development, get better and better results, and maintain a culture of positive productivity. The Effective Manager shows you how to turn good into great with clear, actionable, expert guidance.

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Finally! Straight forward information.

It's truly wonderful to find a resource for step-by-step instructions. So many resources deal with theories. This one tells me what I need to do tomorrow.

Practical and so effective!

Even before finishing the book I have already recommended it to a dozen Junior and senior managers. I am confident it will help them build a solid foundation to becoming effective managers and influential role models.

An Incredible Work!

Originally, I didn't expect much from this book. It was recommended to me, so I took the plunge and read it. At first, I expected it to be like every other management/leadership book out there.

I was wrong.

Not only does the author offer practical principles, and instructions for how to practice them, but it also offers some mind-blowing case studies to prove the principles being made.

In fact, I was so impressed that I implemented the author's advice at my job, and I encouraged my boss to read this book. And he did.

Not only was he impressed with it, but he has now made the book required reading for all new supervisors and managers in my office. But not just required reading. He has made the practices found in this book part of our regular routine.

The results from integrating the author's counsel have been wonderful.

A must for any supervisor or manager!

Incredibly effective and specific guidance

This book is fantastic and I fully recommend it to anyone who wants to build or improve their management skills. It covers the concepts that every manager needs to know and practice: building relationships, performance communication, asking for more and pushing work down. The guidance in this book is clear, specific, actionable and demonstrably effective.

When I first started managing I had no clue what I was doing and all the guidance I found was generic, too general and not helpful (eg. "You should coach your people, and you coach them by coaching them, so get out there and coach them!"). The ideas and guidance contained in this book are the exact opposite. The recommendations are incredibly specific, make sense, and work! This book has detailed and actionable information on the things you can do to retain your people, deliver better results, and be a better manager.

One of the points that this book makes that I really appreciated and found helpful is the idea that anyone can be a good manager. They just need to have the willingness to learn and apply that knowledge. This book contains that knowledge, with the experience to back it. If you apply what you will learn, you too can be a good manager.

Arguably the best thing about this book is the huge array of resources available on their website at no cost. Hundreds of podcasts on nearly every topic related to management, friendly and helpful people in their forums, as well as numerous other resources. And all of it is actionable.

101 Guide for 1st time managers

This book is a great guide to first time managers. It provides key issues that will make you a better manager. For you and your team. I recommend it to all managers at different levels. It's my go to for guide and refreshing the basics of management.

Concise accurate guidance with a solid basis

I have met both Mark and Michael Auzenne. My know them and their background. This book is written with a lot of care and thought after years of on the feet, active management in the rules they discuss.
They have compile data from users, clients, their own organizations at all levels and The in valuable feedback from their clients of the Manager Tools community.
The authors style is direct and six-inch being very results oriented and helpful without a lot of frothy anecdotal stories, jokes or silliness. This is a very matter-of-fact clean, concise yet easy to read guide for the professional. This book is a Sapir your guide for professional managers at any level in in any kind of situation. They are code of ethics and approach homogeneously covers every situation and with the book doesn’t cover in depth is backed up with their large library a free online content related to the book.
I am thankful for this volume and have gained tremendous insights, chips, and tools to become a better manager. I could not be more thankful to the team and the author, Mark Horstman.

Good tools

Practical tools. clear instructions on how to implement the tools. easy to relate to.

Just Excellent

Very intuitive. I like the fictional dialogues; it details what could occur in relating to directs.
Aot learnt here. Would recommend this to any new manager.

Practical and direct to the point

Highly recommended: A practical, concise guide with actionable tips and techniques. Direct to the point, it's a must-read!

Exceptionally clear, actionable, evidence based

This book is exceptionally clear in its evidence-based prescription for how to be an effective manager. No fluff, no repetition, no asides. Although all information in the book is available for free on the excellent Manager Tools podcasts, this book focuses on what's most important, which in turn helped me to focus on getting the most important things right. It helped me correct some of the mistakes I previously made in rolling out and implementing the core guidance from the podcasts.