365 Foolish Mistakes Smart Managers Commit Every Day: How and Why to Avoid Them

The book is chock full of potential pitfalls in a new manager's thought process and how to fix the old noggin' to be a better manager. This is the book for all you first time managers. I'd argue that even management veterans should read this. Ms. Henkel really gets into the head of the manager and shows why and how to avoid erroneous judgments. Excellent guide.

This book is a valuable and necessary reference for an employee seeking his first management post, a new manager, or a seasoned manager that wants to update his management style. With its practical, `how-to' style, the book is designed to follow the reader throughout her career and provides real-life solutions and best practice to any managerial dilemmas he or she will face. The book is well-researched and organized sequentially, beginning with a manager's first steps, and goes on to define the managerial role and how to facilitate and establish authority. In part two, the book discusses how to perfect your management skills, and how to improve your effectiveness as a manager. Readers will particularly appreciate Chapter 8, `Dealing with People Outside Your Department' and offers solutions on how to work with employees that are not within your scope of authority. The book maintains that the `big three' topics in management--communication, delegation, and motiviation--are critical to a manager's success, and these topics are covered in depth. Several case studies throughout the book offer practical guidance to existent work scenarios. The book is followed by a useful glossary of common business, management, and leadership terms, making this volume an invaluable and comprehensive guide to any modern-day manager.

If you have ever read the Don't Sweat The Small Stuff series, you will find this title just as simple to follow along and understand. Written in simple language, it states mistakes #1 through #365 in a grayscale box and then states just why that item can be considered a mistake. Underneath the box, the author goes into more detail about the "mistakes" and gives possible ways to avoid them completely. With bulleted and numbered lists throughout the text, this volume is full of information without being overwhelming. It gets to the point and allows for quick reading whenever a manager might need a refresher on a particular topic. As with many titles offered through Atlantic Publishing, 365 Foolish Mistakes Smart Managers Make Everyday has the Classified Case Studies: directly from the experts pages. These short blurbs offer advice from real-life managers who have made and learned from the mistakes listed in the book. Any manager in any field of work will find something useful within the pages of this book. It would also make a welcome addition to public and business library shelves. I would give it 5 out of 5 stars for its easy to read style, useful information, and helpful examples.

I'm in the technology business, which makes it seem strange I'd review a book from a publisher in the hospitality service industry. Yet common sense manager tips that seem basic in other businesses seem like a revelation in the tech business. With the emphasis on services today, technical managers must treat people like people, not like technical devices. Since many tech managers are promoted for technical rather than people skills, a basic reference like this should be on every new technical manager's desk.

Being a manager is such a challenge, this book, written in laymans terms gives you guidance, tips and resources to be the best manager you can be. If you use this book as a guide you will be ahead of the game. The easy to read format takes the scare out of any mistakes that can happen. This book should be a resource you leave on your desk to refer back to again and again. Learn how to deal with people, earn respect, set goals, delegation, having productive meetings, communication issues, stress and so much more. I recommend this book to anyone who is starting their own business or a manager for any company.