Título: Work Happy: What Great Bosses Know
Autor: Jill Geisler
Sinopse: When Jill Geisler was appointed to news director of her local station at the age of 27, her senior managerial experience was limited to a high school job at a candy shop. Thirty years later, she is one of the leading consultants for managers across the country. WORK HAPPY shares what she's learned over the years, specifically, what makes good bosses great.
Oftentimes, managers find themselves in the same position as Geisler did 30 years ago; they were good performers, so they were tapped to lead a team. But what made them good at their craft isn't guaranteed to make them good at helping others excel. They have managerial skill gaps, big ones, and their mistakes can hurt employees, businesses and their own careers. In WORK HAPPY, Geisler specifically addresses these skill gaps and provides managers with practical and precise research-based tools they can put to use immediately.
The book is divided into three sections: What Great Bosses Know and Do; How Great Bosses Grow Great Employees; and How Great Bosses Build Great Places to Work. The chapters in each section address the various challenges that managers face in the work place and specific advice for conquering them. Chapters include:
· What Employees Never Forget-and Never Forgive
· Manage Yourself So You Can Lead Others
· Tough Times, Tough Love; Handling Problem People and Tricky Situations
· Why It Pays to be a Coach
· How to Make Collaboration a Way of Life
· Would Your Best People Tell Their Best Friends to Work Here?
Along with the advice in each chapter, Geisler also includes quotes from real employees about great bosses and what they do so well, warnings about misapplying the book's advice, and quizzes and self-assessment tools for manager's to self-diagnose their strengths and weaknesses.
In WORK HAPPY, Jill Geisler teaches managers to commiserate with challenges, laugh at absurdities and celebrate success.
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “Work Happy: What Great Bosses Know”, de Jill Geisler, publicado pela editora Center Street, em 2014 e com 368 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: Center Street
Páginas: 368
Ano: 2014-01-07
Edição:
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 1455547077
ISBN13: 9781455547074
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Center Street trazem narrativas que combinam investigação detalhada e relatos pessoais intensos, com foco em temas sociais, políticos e espirituais. A leitura frequentemente apresenta conflitos profundos, como crimes complexos, batalhas ideológicas e jornadas de transformação pessoal, que se desenrolam em ambientes que vão desde cenários urbanos contemporâneos até desertos antigos ou instituições religiosas. O catálogo revela uma diversidade que vai do relato jornalístico investigativo a obras de desenvolvimento pessoal e ficção histórica, com ritmo que varia entre o tenso e o reflexivo, sempre com uma linguagem acessível e direta.
