Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Retaining Your Best People: Harvard Business School Press

Retaining Your Best People: Harvard Business School Press


This is the best investment of 2 hours on people management reading I’ve ever experienced.

Most people management books are motivational writing. These provide a general philosophical goal (e.g. be good to your employees) and then describe how wonderful the results are. These books don’t really tell the tactical challenges involved; and these motivational books are partial, in that their partial view is claimed to be a whole fix-all.

Other people-management books I’ve read are usually dry textbooks—I’ve never read through these, as I keep falling asleep.

This book though is fast-reading and provides numerous practical tips. I’ve always thought Harvard Business Review provided excellent reading, and this fast-reading book is so far superior to the other (limited) management books I've read that I regard it in a class by itself.

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