I don’t really have any interest in management, but i read a great recommendation for this book recently (forgot the link) so i couldn’t resist ordering it. It consists of two parts. The first 120 pages is a bit of a story about a manager who was just hired to lead one of the departments of a software development company. In between the story (which is an easy and interesting read), you’ll find lots of great insight into what great management is all about. The last 40 pages are great descriptions of 13 management techniques.
This book is a must-read for anyone doing any kind of management (even if it’s just project management), and i’d even recommend it to non-managers as well. It is just filled with great insight, tips and things that everyone should know about, not just managers.
And for those of you who’re too lazy to read a book (and i know there’s at least a few of you ;)), it’s only 160 pages so it’s not like this will eat up a lot of your time.
Plus 1 on this book. It is a nice, easy read and can help those of us who get promoted into doing what we hate because we are good at what we love.
https://elegantcode.com/2006/09/05/behind-closed-doors-secrets-of-great-management/
I enjoyed this book and gained some insight from it – one thing that I didn’t like though was that it encouraged the concepts that Good Managers(TM) have lots of Meetings. Meet with everyone on your team, often. Be sure to have lots of status meetings. The formal, agenda-driven, sit-down type. And make them all fixed recurring schedule sorts of meetings as well.
Communication is essential of course, and meetings aren’t the only thing the authors talked about, but I think they over-emphasized it to the point that somebody trying to apply this book like a cookbook was going to run into problems….
Thanks for the review. I thought it was a great book as well. It shows how to connect with your team and find out what they need om tje way of support to keep them at their best.