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The Truth About Getting the Best From People

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Concise, positive, practical and insightful...all are apt adjectives for Finney's book. Having been a Fortune 1000 product manager and program manager for many years, I was forever nodding my head in agreement, yet finding plenty of meaty content. Unlike so much management prose that can only be described as repetitious drivel, the 'truths' provide solid how to advice that assumes the reader already has a brain and a conscience. Further, the organization is excellent for the time-crunched. Each 'truth' gets 2-3 pages of intense discussion, allowing for on-the-go reading. Recommended!

As an executive coach and employee engagement expert, I help professionals motivate their teams to greater productivity. This book has been so useful to me by providing relevant information, great examples and applicable strategies to - as the title aptly states - get the best from people. I reach for GETTING THE BEST FROM PEOPLE - every single day and highly recommend it to anyone who has to manage anyone!

Libby Gill, author of Traveling Hopefully: How to Lose Your Baggage and Jumpstart Your Life

This is a terrific book. Why you ask? Because is practical. This will become one of your favorite reference books. Lots a good tips and reminders. Everyone intereted in being a leader or help others be leaders should have it.

Finney details 49 practical methods for leaders, managers, and teams to get the most from their experiences with employees and colleagues. Our work dovetails with Finney's by providing insight into the specific, proven methods for managing individuals with specific characteristics. Finney's methods are excellent tools for ensuring success and productivity in business.

- Kaley Klemp & Jim Warner, Authors, "The Drama-Free Office: A Guide to Healthy Collaboration with Your Team, Coworkers, and Boss"

The job of a people leader is to inspire employees to bring their personal greatness to work every day and to invest their best in the business, according to Martha Finney in this book. The book goes on to discuss a range of different topics including employee engagement, motivation, engaged cultures, the leader's behaviour, performance, creativity, communication and teams.

Many managers continually struggle with the question of how to make the workplace into an environment so compelling that employees can't wait to get out of bed in the mornings to come to work. According to the author, employee engagement is not created by offering carrots and sticks; it is created by having a mission which employees believe in, making sure employees understand how their work serves the bigger picture, ensuring clear consistent communication, and cultivating high levels of trust and respect.

Another uncomfortable aspect of managing is performance appraisals: there are sound reasons for having a formal feedback system, but the process is usually a dreaded one in which both parties skate around the real issues. The author sees performance appraisals as an opportunity to reconnect with employees in a positive way, inspiring them with next year's mission and deepening a relationship of trust and mutual respect.

The book is divided into 49 reasonably short chapters or "truths", making it easy to read, and the writing style is quite engaging. Anyone who has responsibility for managing other people will benefit from reading it.

How do you get the best out of your workers, their A-Game? "The Truth About Getting the Best From People" is a guide for managers and leaders on just that. With advice on keeping their workplace positive and dedicated to the company's goals, motivation facts and myths, and general leadership advice to bring the best out of oneself above all else, "The Truth About Getting the Best From People" is a finely written leadership guide, highly recommended to community library business collections.

I'm in my first year as a manager. This book showed me several things I was doing that killed my effectiveness. Wish someone had given this to me the day of my promotion.

Fabulous book for anyone in a business setting. Others have said it is for leaders, I think it is for anyone that has to work on a team. Fantastic for helping identify what motivates people to give their best. I recommend this book to everyone I know.

This is a great book for managers. It has a lot of practical advice to help you help yourself and others at work. I got this as a freebie and see myself refering to it in the future, sort of a guide to "getting the greatest employees."

This is a great book for both new and experienced managers. You will find concise, well-organized concepts and idea that will inspire thought and reflection on your own managerial style. The book works fine in the Kindle version although there is some content that seems to have been intended as titles (or perhaps key points) that actually ends up presented on the Kindly more or less as duplicated text. The good news is that this repeated text is often well worth repeating, so these repetitions are not particularly irritating even when highlighting your favorite content for quick retrieval in the future. If the author writes a new edition, I'd be careful about using examples that are regional in nature such as the Le Cirque reference. Again a small flaw in an otherwise well-written book. The chapters are written in fairly stand-alone fashion, which means a given chapter could be used to support a discussion on management and leadership. This could be useful in a classroom setting or for a leadership training effort within a corporation. In this day and age where we ask so much of our work teams, this book's "learning leader" focus and underlying premise about the importance of employee engagement rings true.