Recognize This! –There are great resources on how to manage better. And now they’re all in one place.

Do you ever wish you could have an easy-to-hand resource of the best management advice from the people you follow in blogs? I know I do. I follow many excellent bloggers and have read and internalized sound management advice over the last many years. Yet there are many times I wish I could have quickly referenced the wisdom of these many others.

Now I can – and so can you. The American Society for Training and Development has just issued a new book that does just this. Edited by Lisa Haneberg, The ASTD Management Development Book brings together the best authors in the space, including some of my personal favorites:

• Jeffrey Pfeffer
• Wally Bock
• Bret Simmons
• Tony Schwartz
• Kevin Eikenberry
• Steve Roesler
• CV Harquail
• David Zinger

The book is easy to navigate with sections on fundamental ideas, culture building, teamwork, and management as a social act. Some of my favorite chapters are:

• The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working: More and More, Less and Less
• Positively Using Your Power
• Who Says There’s No Crying in Leadership
• Are SMART Goals Dumb?
• Unmanaging the Network

The book is available in hardcover and eBook formats through the ASTD website. I strongly encourage anyone with a desire to improve their management skills (or the skills of others) to read the book … and not just because my CEO Eric Mosley and I are featured in it, too.

You can hear some of this in action today on my webinar this afternoon with Katie Scott, compensation director at LSI. Register now!