The Manager's Handbook: Five Simple Steps to Build a Team, Stay Focused, Make Better Decisions, and Crush Your Competition - Hardcover

Dodson, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1394174071 ISBN 13: 9781394174072

Publisher: Wiley, 2023

Synopsis

A WALL STREET JOURNAL AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER

An actionable strategy guide for busy professionals who want to level up their management game

In The Manager's Handbook, Stanford Graduate School of Business faculty member, serial entrepreneur, and investor in over 100 companies, David Dodson, delivers an insightful work that describes, in highly practical detail, five skills every great manager needs to know if they want to get things done.

Managers desperately want a crisp, how-to book that will show them―in one single title―the way to master the most important skills necessary to run an organization. The Manager's Handbook organizes the five essential skills of effective implementation into one, simple-to-read, easy-to-use, book. The Manager's Handbook is an essential playbook for managers, executives, board members, and other business leaders interested in dramatically improving their ability to lead people and inspire loyalty.

In the book, you’ll learn how to get better at running any kind of organization by breaking down each essential skill into bite-sized sub-skills you can easily and quickly learn. You'll also find:

• Digestible tips and tactics for hiring the best people, onboarding, performance feedback, and improving the performance of underachievers
• A model script for how to begin an exit interview
• Ways to let people go from your organization gracefully, quickly, and with compassion

The Manager's Handbook is an essential playbook for managers, executives, board members, and other business leaders interested in dramatically improving their ability to lead people and inspire loyalty.

About this title

About the Author

DAVID DODSON is on the faculty of Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, where he guides students in tactical execution. He teaches one of the most sought-after courses at Stanford, and in 2023 The Economist listed his course as one of the three "hottest" courses at Stanford. He is a recent recipient of the MSx Teaching Excellence Award and a six-time speaker in the graduation Last Lecture series. He also holds an economics and business degree from Stanford University.

Dodson's success in the classroom follows a vast experience in the trenches. Beginning as a McKinsey & Company consultant, he left to become a serial entrepreneur, where he operated six companies as CEO or Executive Chairman. He has since served as a board member of more than 40 companies and has been an active investor in over 150 businesses.

He is a frequent business commentator on CNBC and Fox News, and he has been published in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Fortune Magazine, Forbes, CNN, Business Insider, The Hill, Denver Post, along with other publications.

In 2018 he ran for Wyoming's U.S. Senate seat, hoping to help restore order and civility to our broken political system. Through his continued interest, he founded StudentVotes to increase student access to voting, where they developed innovative technology that has been 61 times more effective than prior get-out-the-vote techniques.

In 2000 Dodson co-founded Sanku, which developed the only successful technology to fortify grains with lifesaving micronutrients in rural African mills. The award-winning technology was named as Time Magazine's 100 Best Inventions and received the IoT Evolution Product of the Year Award by Vodaphone. Sanku was listed by Fast Company as one of the "Most Innovative Companies." Through this work, Sanku has saved and improved the lives of over five million rural families in Africa.

From the Back Cover

PRAISE FOR The MANAGER'S HANDBOOK

"The best book I've ever read on why some people are more effective at getting things done than others."
―LINDA HENRY, CEO, The Boston Globe

"I attribute most of my success to recruiting people with high scores for 'GSD' ― get shit done. This is the definitive guide to GSD."
―PAUL ENGLISH, Co-Founder, Kayak

"Simply the desire to do things is not enough. The Manager's Handbook helps reveal the importance of joining the right strategy with excellent execution."
―MICHAEL PORTER, Professor, Harvard Business School and author of Competitive Advantage

"Business success is 1% insight and 99% implementation. Dodson puts the 99% in what will become the playbook for anyone serious about accomplishing anything."
―WALTER ROBB, Former Co-CEO, Whole Foods Market

"Dodson does not waste a single word. He packs a dozen business books, and a two-year MBA program, into one book."
―BRIAN SPALY, Co-Founder, Bonobos

"Dodson unmasks in a single book the practical skills that separate those who flounder from those who drive results."
―ILENE JACOBS, Former Executive Vice President for Human Resources, Fidelity Investments

"I wish I’d had this book early in my career. It thoughtfully captures many hard-earned life lessons in one place. This is not a book to read, it’s a book to use."
―WALTER BORST, Former Treasurer, General Motors Company, and Chief Financial Officer, Navistar

"Why didn't someone give me this book twenty years ago!"
―AMY ERRETT, Founder and CEO, Madison-Reed

From the Inside Flap

Why are some leaders so much better than others at getting things done―and how can you become one of them?

In The Manager's Handbook: Five Simple Steps to Build a Team, Stay Focused, Make Better Decisions, and Crush Your Competition, veteran entrepreneur, board member, and investor David Dodson delivers a practical and hands-on discussion of the five skills every great leader needs to drive extraordinary results: building teams, managing your time, using advisors, sticking to your priorities, and obsessing over quality.

Based on his years of research and practical experience, the author explains how to get better at running virtually any kind of organization. He does so by breaking down each critical skill into digestible, bite-sized sub-skills that you can learn quickly and easily―revealing the secrets to getting things done.

Busy leaders don't have time to read one book about hiring, another about delegation, another on time management, and yet another on quality control. As a CEO himself, he understands that there is a powerful need for a one-stop resource with practical advice on the key components of organizational leadership. This is that resource.

Along with an illuminating Foreword written by Irv Grousbeck, co-developer of Stanford's Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, the book offers timeless and insightful lessons that align with the most important skills organizational leaders need to run their companies. This is a book that leaders will use―and not just read― to improve their competencies in key areas that drive firm success.

An indispensable handbook for organizational management and leadership, The Manager's Handbook will earn a place in the libraries of executives, managers, directors, founders, entrepreneurs, and other business leaders looking for tested ways to improve their ability to lead others.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2023
• ISBN 10: 1394174071
• ISBN 13: 9781394174072
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288