A solid handbook with basic tips and ideas for aspiring managers, particularly those who are millennials or expect to manage...
Debut authors Eliassi and Thompson’s work combines their experience to produce a guide for millennials hoping to become managers and managers hoping to lead millennials.
Eliassi, a millennial, struggled to master management skills. He teamed up with Thompson, an experienced manager and executive, through SCORE, a mentorship program, and used Thompson’s articles and teachings as the basis for this book. The guide outlines step-by-step plans for implementing change, developing leadership traits, creating vision-building tools like mission statements, and using time-management tips. Eliassi, who narrates the book, segues into strategic and tactical plans and ways to craft and use them. Next, he discusses effective communication with an emphasis on intercompany messages. He then moves onto team building, dedicating several chapters to identifying critical positions to fill both now and in the future, recruiting and hiring the right people for those positions, and training and coaching them successfully. He wraps up with a quick summary, touching on the top 10 lessons from the introduction and previous chapters. Because Eliassi is a millennial and Thompson is a baby boomer, they bring not only their differing perspectives, but also well-considered suggestions for working with one another. For example, Eliassi points out that millennials have different priorities from Gen Xers or baby boomers, preferring a healthy work-life balance to a higher salary and looking for positions that offer fast-track advancement and that allow them to make a difference. The more generalized management and HR advice they offer is perfectly sound, if not very revolutionary.
A solid handbook with basic tips and ideas for aspiring managers, particularly those who are millennials or expect to manage them.Pub Date: April 28, 2016
ISBN: 978-0-692-69647-7
Page Count: 190
Publisher: GlobalView Publishing
Review Posted Online: Nov. 28, 2016
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
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An extravaganza in Bemelmans' inimitable vein, but written almost dead pan, with sly, amusing, sometimes biting undertones, breaking through. For Bemelmans was "the man who came to cocktails". And his hostess was Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolfe), arbiter of American decorating taste over a generation. Lady Mendl was an incredible person,- self-made in proper American tradition on the one hand, for she had been haunted by the poverty of her childhood, and the years of struggle up from its ugliness,- until she became synonymous with the exotic, exquisite, worshipper at beauty's whrine. Bemelmans draws a portrait in extremes, through apt descriptions, through hilarious anecdote, through surprisingly sympathetic and understanding bits of appreciation. The scene shifts from Hollywood to the home she loved the best in Versailles. One meets in passing a vast roster of famous figures of the international and artistic set. And always one feels Bemelmans, slightly offstage, observing, recording, commenting, illustrated.
Pub Date: Feb. 23, 1955
ISBN: 0670717797
Page Count: -
Publisher: Viking
Review Posted Online: Oct. 25, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1955
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