Management Tips: From Harvard Business Review

About the Book: Management Tips: From Harvard Business Review

As a manager, you're shouldering more and more responsibilities-from maximizing your team's performance to increasing your company's market share to building profitable customer relationships. On top of all that, you need to orchestrate your own time and keep your career on track.

The challenges are stacking up-but you've got less and less time to figure out how to tackle them.

How are you supposed to resolve this dilemma? Happily, help is on the way: the new Management Tips from the Harvard Business Review. This concise, handy guide is packed with quick tips on a broad range of topics, organized into three major skills every manager must master:

• Managing yourself
• Managing your team
• Managing your business

Drawing from HBR's popular Management Tip of the Day, the book puts the best management practices and insights, from top thinkers in the field, right at your fingertips. Pick it up any time you have a few minutes to spare, and you'll have a fresh, powerful idea you can immediately put into action.

You may not be able to do much about being time-starved. But with Management Tips from the Harvard Business Review as your guide, you'll stand the best chance of succeeding in your role as a manager.

Studies have shown that a good memory helps you better navigate the future. And in business, the ability to anticipate and negotiate future demands is an asset. A proactive brain uses details from past experiences to make analogies with your current surroundings. It then helps you determine where you are and envision future possibilities. We are all born with proactive brains, but these three things can help improve brain performance.

• Give your brain a lot to work with. Create a rich pool of information to draw from. Expose your brain to diverse experiences and situations.
• Borrow from others. Find out as much as you can about others experiences by talking and interacting with people and reading about their lives.
• Let your mind wander, Undisturbed time gives your brain the space it needs to recall and recombine past experiences in ways that help you anticipate the future.