The ASTD Management Development Handbook: Innovation for Today's Manager

by Lisa Haneberg (editor)

Deftly edited by management expert Lisa Haneberg, The ASTD Management Development Handbook provides the best and most insightful thinking on leadership from modern management professionals who are in touch with the issues, challenges, opportunities, and dynamics present in contemporary corporate culture. These contributors, while writing in a range of styles and on a range of management- and leadership-related topics, have in common a great deal of real-world managerial experience, a passion for their area of expertise, and a desire to share their cutting-edge thinking on best management practices.

Through this handbook you will gain a greater understanding of
complexity, power, and energy dynamics within organizations

creating workplace cultures where authenticity, openness, quality, community, happiness, and recognition flourish

developing, leading, and maintaining teams that work efficiently and productively together, and learning how to enable overall team success
the theory and practice of management as a social act, and the requirements and opportunities this offersbecoming adept at creating, inspiring, and engaging productive workplaces.The ASTD Management Development Handbook suffers from no blind spots or filler chapters. Instead, it is a vital, cohesive compilation of
the most current thinking on modern managerial practices available today, filled with concise, focused, pragmatic lessons and wisdom.

561 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 16, 2012

About the author

Lisa Haneberg is the author the Spy Shop Mystery series and over a dozen nonfiction books covering human resources, leadership, and personal success. Available series books include Ghost Rat (prequel novella) Toxic Octopus (#1) and Dead Pelican (#2). All are set in Galveston. She lives with her husband and Hazel the dog in Lexington, Kentucky.