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Harvard Business Review on Managing People (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series)

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Whether you're just entering people management or have been doing it for years, this book grabs a selection of readable papers on a variety of topics from compensation to handling 'poor performers' to more effective (but non-manipulative!) means of persuasion.

Especially interesting were the two articles on the performance of individuals and the messages -- both explicit and implicit -- that managers give to their reports and how they affect performance. You should definitely give them a read if you think you have an average to poor performer that you're actively working with right now.

I ordered 5 books including this one, and all of them are so very shallow, low level and boring.
Some of the chapters were actually copied in several books! Unbelivable.
I would probably recommend this series to school children interested in management - nothing more than that.

I regularly read great articles from the subscription program of HBR and rely on its contents for great insight into today's business environment.

Unfortunately, the HBR book series make a poor comparison. I have even wonder if HBR is recycling unused, or rejected submissions for these books.

I bought Managing People, Brand managment and Marketing and stopped reading each after just two articles. They were just all a waste of time.

Definitely one of the better books in the series. Discussion of common corporate issues. Provides good solutions. I've read 4 in the series and like this one the most.