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First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
by Marcus Buckingham
I had to read this for work for a promotion into a management role and let me tell you, it was soooo dry. Yes, there were a lot of good comparisons and analogies and personal anecdotes in there to try and make the topic more interesting, but this could have easily been a 50-75 page guide on management styles.
Basically everyone has different management styles for different roles and different people and there's no one right way to do it. There. That's the book.
It was so repetitive that I'm pretty sure I read the same advice seven times over, just with slightly different wording. Yes, it has some good ideas and the intentions are good, but I would say about 90% of it is common sense. If you're going into a management role, chances are you have some common sense and some ability to comprehend how to deal with people (whether it is your associates or your guests/customers) so it was almost an insult to my intelligence to be told to read this whole thing cover-to-cover.
Basically everyone has different management styles for different roles and different people and there's no one right way to do it. There. That's the book.
It was so repetitive that I'm pretty sure I read the same advice seven times over, just with slightly different wording. Yes, it has some good ideas and the intentions are good, but I would say about 90% of it is common sense. If you're going into a management role, chances are you have some common sense and some ability to comprehend how to deal with people (whether it is your associates or your guests/customers) so it was almost an insult to my intelligence to be told to read this whole thing cover-to-cover.