New York Times Management Reader: Hot Ideas and Best Practices from the New World of Business

New York Times Management Reader: Hot Ideas and Best Practices from the New World of Business Review

From outstanding companies and news-making business leaders -- smart, concise, practical strategies for managers.

How do innovative managers actually motivate employees, beat the competition, and keep up with the new economy? In more than fifty lively, incisive profiles, New York Times reporters take readers inside companies like Citigroup, visit Harvard Business School, and interview Carly Fiorina and other prominent figures to uncover the essence of effective leadership.

Organized around such vital business issues as bringing together two corporate cultures, retaining a top-notch workforce, and exploiting new technologies, these real-world stories illuminate the theory and practice of good management.

What gets employees to stay when headhunters call -- offers of better compensation or bosses who are invested in employee job satisfaction? What's the best way to build teamwork -- in off-site training programs or in the office, where power struggles and other problems arise? Each case presents the objective and comprehensive review of the facts that readers expect from The New York Times and provides timely, knowledgeable answers to questions managers face now.