The Boss's Survival Guide
Author: Bob Rosner, Allan Halcrow, Alan S. Levins
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ISBN: 0071362738
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade (01 June, 2001)
Sales Rank: 10,907
Average Customer Rating: 3.81 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 2 out of 5
Good for new managers- But they don't worry about survival..
...yet. Most of the problems this book discusses are faced by new managers who do not yet understand the intricasies of managing people and the politics of the office. No manager, regardless of experience ever fully does, but this book is not very insightful for experienced managers.Further, the authors spend a great deal of time discussing HR issues. Those are fine and dandy, but if you don't have turn-over in your department, the recommendations on making good hires and avoiding HR pitfalls are fine, but on a day-to-day basis, they're not that useful.
The cover of the book states "Everything you need to know about getting through and getting the most out of every day". The only managers who will find this true by reading this book are HR managers.
Still, there are some useful anecdotes and suggestions but in terms of being a desktop-reference for department heads and corporate managers, this book is lacking.
Rating: 5 out of 5
A message from a co-author
The journey of this book began when I received a surprising email from Mike J., a former Fortune 500 company supervisor. (As an internationally syndicated columnist who gets thousands of emails, this remains one of the most memorable.) Mike wrote, "In my opinion, I would not want to work for me." Right then and there I made a commitment to write a book that would give bosses the tools they needed to navigate the minefield that is today's workplace. I teamed up with two of the best brains in the field of human resources: Allan Halcrow, former publisher of Workforce, the leading HR magazine in the U.S. and Alan Levins, a senior partner of the largest U.S. management and labor law firm, Littler Mendelson. We decided to do something truly radical--to address the most vexing 65 management and legal challenges that a boss faces in ENGLISH (what a concept!). In 5 to 7 pages for each issue, we offer an overview of the issue, action steps, tips for staying out of jail and real world examples. Amazon described the Survival Guide as, "The perfect book for new supervisors as well as seasoned bosses, and many people are already buying it for their entire staffs and departments." We are proud to be a #1 Amazon business best-seller and that James Dagnon, Senior VP of Human Resouces at Boeing has called the Survival Guide, "a book that should be on every manager's desk."
Rating: 1 out of 5
Couldn't put it down...
...fast enough.The Boss's Survival Guide is fairly worthless tripe. Appears to have been written by a group of tipsy Union reps. Too PC and too anti-Management to be used by any real manager.
Gonna supervise a group of tree huggers out to protest at an NRA meeting? This "book" is for you. Otherwise, don't waste your money or time.
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