About the book

The one primer you need to develop your managerial and leadership skills.
Whether you’re a new manager or looking to have more influence in your current management role, the challenges you face come in all shapes and sizes—a direct report’s anxious questions, your boss’s last-minute assignment of an important presentation, or a blank business case staring you in the face. To reach your full potential in these situations, you need to master a new set of business and personal skills.

Packed with step-by-step advice and wisdom from Harvard Business Review’s management archive, the HBR Manager’s Handbook provides best practices on topics from understanding key financial statements and the fundamentals of strategy to emotional intelligence and building your employees’ trust. The book’s brief sections allow you to home in quickly on the solutions you need right away—or take a deeper dive if you need more context.

Content:

Part One: Develop a Leader Mindset

1. The Transition to Leadership
2. Building Trust and Credibility
3. Emotional Intelligence
4. Positioning Yourself for Success

Part Two: Managing Yourself

5. Becoming a Person of Influence
6. Communicating Effectively
7. Personal Productivity
8. Self-Development

Part Three: Managing Individuals

9. Delegating with Confidence
10. Giving Effective Feedback
11. Developing Talent

Part Four: Managing Teams

12. Leading Teams
13. Fostering Creativity
14. Hiring—and Keeping—the Best

Part Five: Managing the Business

15. Strategy: A Primer
16. Mastering Financial Tools
17. Developing a Business Case