Whether you’re an experienced employee in a first time managerial role or a complete business novice, this guide has everything you need to excel in your field Written in a style designed to help you grasp concepts quickly and effectively, The New Manager’s Survival Guide provides the information and tools you need to create a solid team, department, or company. It helps you advance your career by covering the nuts and bolts of managing a business, which is not often taught in business classes and which even experienced managers sometimes need to brush up on. You will learn the ins and outs of management, including understanding organizational design, building and utilizing teams, using data to make smart decisions, crafting strategy, creating product plans, and managing people up, down, or across organizational lines. In addition, the book provides new tools for supervisory managers who aren’t familiar with the important practice of coaching. Plus, a self-assessment instrument helps you determine your knowledge level beforehand, so you can skip the parts you have already mastered and/or focus more deeply on practices you need work on.

Advance in your product management career and create innovative products that customers love! Regardless of industry or sector, to compete in today’s business world, product managers must understand how their customer’s preferences change, how technology evolves, and how anticipate what competitors might do. Regardless of industry, you need a reliable resource that provides timely guidance and practical tools to help you compete. With new content and expert advice, this updated edition of The Product Manager’s Survival Guide brings you fully up to date on what you need to succeed as a product manager. For your professional future, you’ll learn it’s not the development technique that will help you get ahead, it’s how you think like a strategically minded business person. Your continuous learning starts with your product management acumen assessment, and takes root, when you develop your own professional development strategy. The Product Manager’s Survival Guide, Second Edition features brand new material, including: •A product management acumen assessment•Action planning ideas at the end of each chapter •Techniques to earn empowerment•Tools to develop product strategies and roadmaps•Methods to deploy and release products•Metrics to assess product performance Simple and easy to understand, this invaluable guide will help you bring your company into the digital age and continue to evolve with changing times.

This book demonstrates how businesses can take advantage of today's advanced technologies and emerging information technology trends. Includes formulas, case studies, and strategies that show managers how to follow in the footsteps of today's corporate visionaries from such companies as Hewlett-Packard, Sprint, and Digital.

The author shows how to use emotional intelligence tactics to survive when dealing with toxic managers and other impossible people in the workplace.

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