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Book Review: Supermanager
January 17, 2013 | Dan Beaulieu, D.B. Management GroupEstimated reading time: 1 minute
A book recommendation from Dan Beaulieu.
The Supermanager: A Short Story About the Secrets of an Extremely Successful ManagerBy: Greg BlencoeCopyright: 2011, Greg BlencoePrice: $2.99 Kindle EditionPages: 97
I love books that make sense. I like books that get to the point, that capture the very essence of the message they want to deliver. Greg Blencoe’s book does exactly that. If you want to know how to be a great manager in about an hour, read this book. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that this book oversimplifies the process of becoming a great manager. What I am saying is that everything you need to know about becoming a great manager is right here in this short book.
The book lists seven principles needed to be a great manager. If you learn and practice these principles on a regular basis, you can’t miss--you'll become a great manager.
The first chapter, “Surround Yourself with High-Quality Employees," contains a slogan/axiom that is so powerful I’ve already stolen it and used in in one of my columns: “Hire for attitude and train for skill.” This is probably the most important idea in the book. You have to understand that skills can be taught, but attitude? Well, that’s just there--you either have it or you don’t.
The next six chapters cover each one of the other principles needed to become a great manager, from training and communication, to leading by example, to listening to your employees, to praising, and, finally, to understanding that every employee is different and has to be managed according to those differences.
I am a management consultant in the PCB industry and tomorrow morning I fly out to work with one of my long-standing clients. I'm going there to work closely with his employees to get them fired up and working up to snuff again. This is the only book I’m taking with me. I have read through it once and will do so again on the plane tomorrow. I plan to use it as a guide during the rest of the week.
Buy it, read it, study it, think about it, and then use it. If you’re trying to be the best manager you can be, this is the one book you’ll need to have close at hand.