Human Resources Books discussion

I was hoping you could help me with your thoughts on newly promoted supervisors/managers. I think we have all seen people who are great at their work, but once promoted, the same people can struggle to find their feet.

What is the best book for new managers that you would give them?

I'm hoping we can gather a great list of books for new managers!

Hi, I know we should be cautious in "self-promoting."

I was a beginning manager who struggled a lot. I had a bunch of realizations over the years - why did I think of ElRoy Face? Why did I recall that group of people I worked with in Tokyo? Why did I come to think that how we train managers and supervisors as organizations is a failure because how we train never gets at the problems that come on to the desk/agenda every day of every manager and supervisor? Why did I have everyone report to me before being a "flat organization" was ever discussed?

Because I realized that the way I had been taught and read about how to manage didn't work. For sixty-plus years, we've gotten it wrong and continue to do so, But I threw most of it out and made some simple commonsense changes that turned things around and our group/office became amazingly productive.

So, yes, that sounds like self-promotion, but I think what I've written will help every manager and supervisor - from those beginning to those who have been on the job for a while - become a great manager and leader!

So, I wrote my book - which just was published recently that tells the story of what I did and changed over my career.

The best thing I can do with this post?

Put up a review of "I'll Teach You My Job!" - which if, every leader - whether a beginning manager of supervisor, to a division head to the CEO - would do, we would minimize the challenges for new people. Why, it's obvious, if you taught them your job, they would be able to step in and do the job that needs to get done and thus hit the ground running and be highly successful!

Here's that review:

"I Wish I Had Read This Book Much Earlier!"

There are so many books printed each year for supervisors or managers. I found this book to be somewhat different, in that it is written by a practitioner instead of a consultant or management guru. Rather than detail this year's model of trendy new insights, it provides straight-forward, common sense to working with people and building a successful program. Mr. Tagawa, a thought leader in higher education administration Human Resources for over 25 years, provides for the first time his "secret sauce" to becoming the type of leader that everyone would want to have and hopefully be. The book is formatted in an easy to read, easy to digest manner which I believe further impacts the overall effectiveness."