How Not to Manage People: The Leadership Mistakes Keeping Your Team from Greatness

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You play it cool, letting your team take half days on Friday and overlooking the occasional latecomer to the office. You stand up for your people and make sure they know youre there for them, but they still hate working for you. What gives Well, youre clearly screwing something up, and its time you find out what it is.

Its frustrating. Youve put in the work and finally made it to the management team, and you havent stopped there. You show up first and leave last. Youre there every time one of your employees needs something. To any outsider looking in, youre killing this management thing.

But still, your employees want nothing to do with you. They scoff when you tell them what to do and suddenly get quiet when you walk into the room. You know you have to get your team behind you if youre going to stay on the management team. Chances are its not about what youre doing right--its about what youre doing wrong.

How Not to Manage is filled with interviews and stories of people who were being held back by the things they didnt realize were working against them. The workplace is a minefield filled with politics and unspoken rules. This book is here to teach you:

• How youre screwing it up and what to do about it
• How other people screwed it up before figuring it out
• What you should stop doing immediately
• What you should be doing more of

Now, stop panicking and letting frustration hold you back. This book is the tool you need to get your team on your side and rock the manager title!

Author Bio

Mike Wicks is an award-winning author, collaborator, and senior writer at Kevin Anderson & Associates. He has managed several multimillion-dollar government programs, rebranded towns and regions, written economic development and tourism strategies, and created sponsorship programs for major not-for-profits. Wicks is also a well-regarded trainer, facilitator, and speaker whose clients have included national banks and multinational insurance corporations. Wicks has written and collaborated on over twenty books, e-books, and training manuals. Fire from the Sky: A Diary Over Japan won a silver medal for best military memoir of 2005, awarded by the Military Writers Society of America. He's a foodie, so when he's not writing he can be found in his kitchen preparing a gourmet meal.