Modern Management with Johanna Rothman »

The "Pragmatic Manager"—Johanna Rothman—is back with more frank advice and practical solutions for all your toughest problems. From managing yourself to managing others to leading at the organization level, this collection is a must-have for your entire management team.

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Practical Ways to Manage Yourself: Modern Management Made Easy, Book 1

You can become an excellent manager when you manage yourself first. If you’re like most managers, you’ve never seen management excellence. You are not alone. Modern management requires we first manage ourselves—and that might be the most challenging part of management. Based on research and backed up by personal stories, you'll see how you can manage yourself. Through questions, stories, and proven options, learn how you can:

• Move from expert to coach;
• Recognize and avoid micromanagement;
• Support the people doing the work to solve more of their problems;
• Make time to think so you can be your best self;
• Trust the people you lead and serve;
• And much more.

With its question and myth, each chapter offers you options to rethink how you manage yourself. Become a modern manager. Learn to manage yourself so you and the people you lead and serve can deliver the results everyone needs.

Now available here Practical Ways to Manage Yourself.

This work was written and produced entirely by the author. We are proud to be distributing it.

Practical Ways to Lead & Serve (Manage) Others: Modern Management Made Easy, Book 2

Great managers lead and serve others by creating an environment where people can do their best work. Create trust, loyalty, and engagement as a modern manager. Learn to lead and serve others with ease.

You can excel at managing people when you lead and serve them. You might have only seen managers try to direct and control others. You might think you can't possibly lead and serve others. Especially not with all the pressure you feel. You can. Great managers create an environment where people can do their best work. These excellent managers lead and serve others—not control or direct them. Based on research and backed up by personal stories, this book will show you how modern managers lead and serve others. Through questions and stories, learn how you can:

• Change your focus from individuals to teams;
• Create more capability in each person and as a team;
• Create more engaged teams or workgroups;
• Support people as they manage their careers and eliminate the need for performance reviews;
• Support teams as they can learn to manage themselves;
• And much more.

With its question and myth, each chapter offers you options to rethink how you lead and serve others. Become a modern manager. Learn to lead and serve others to deliver the results everyone needs.

Now available here Practical Ways to Lead & Serve (Manage) Others.

This work was written and produced entirely by the author. We are proud to be distributing it.

Practical Ways to Lead an Innovative Organization: Modern Management Made Easy, Book 3

Would you like your organization to innovate more? Start with your management practices. You might never have seen innovation in management. You are not alone. Learn to create an environment where people can innovate. See how to use the organization’s purpose to manage for better outcomes. Free people to work better and faster. Based on research and backed up by personal stories, you'll see how modern managers practice innovation. Through questions and stories, learn how you can:

• Create management teamwork at all levels;
• Reduce management decision time;
• Manage for effectiveness to promote innovation;
• Plan by value;
• Welcome experiments and learn from them;
• Move from change management to embracing change;
• And much more.

With its question and myth, each chapter offers you options to rethink how you can create management innovation. Change your practices and free the people to deliver better outcomes. Become a modern manager. Learn to lead an innovative organization.

Now available here Practical Ways to Lead an Innovative Organization.

This work was written and produced entirely by the author. We are proud to be distributing it.

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