I picked up the book Harvard Business Review on Managing People in the Seattle airport on Friday and read most of it over the weekend. It backed up a lot of things I knew intuitively about managing people from experience. Only it provides data and case studies to explain why. Lots of light bulbs going on for me.
Perhaps the most gratifiying thing for me was its vindication of my management approach and condemnation of my manager’s approach. Since we are diametrically opposed, this book makes me the right one. Its a shallow victory given that, while I have the satisfaction of being right, he still wins and will keep on winning because bad employees are completely unassailable from below at work. I’ll probably post more articles on the specific revelations I’m having.
If you manage people, you really ought to buy this book.