Last modified September 27, 2023
Whether you are a manager or have the ambition to be one, it is essential to constantly learn new methods to gain skills and be more efficient. Discover our selection of the 12 best management books that will help you progress towards your goal.
1. Dream Team
Comprising 315 pages, this practical work describes to readers the methods for having a motivated and engaged team. More than 400 managers explain in the book how to build a strong and loyal team. For readers’ delight, the author has included easy-to-implement tips and techniques. Readers will find in “Dream Team” tips for knowing how to recruit the right people, and also how to succeed in interviews. Practical tips include the keys to perfect onboarding and the black sheep theorem to maintain team solidarity.
2. Managing with Toltec principles
Through this comprehensive work, the authors introduce readers to the teachings of ancestral wisdom: the Toltec Accords. Indeed, the authors eloquently prove that this multi-millennial approach finds its place in today’s modern world. These demonstrate that it is possible to create serenity within a team while promoting collective creativity. Laurence Aubourg and Olivier Lecointre share practical advice helping to explore the path of the Toltec Agreements. A large part of this book is also devoted to interesting testimonials on the creation of a dynamic team based on collective intelligence.
3. Benevolent management
This work by Philippe Rodet highlights the importance of kindness in professional life. Indeed, as an emergency doctor and management consultant, the latter insists on the place of kindness in human life. According to the author, without kindness, stress levels increase considerably, and people increasingly lose motivation. While when people receive it, they flourish more, and their creativity increases significantly. This 152-page work highlights the essential place of man as well as the need to take his values into account.
4. The manager’s bible
This Harvard Business Review book is a comprehensive guide for managers and leaders, offering practical advice on team management, decision-making, and leadership. It addresses the skills needed to effectively manage projects and crises, while emphasizing key elements like self-confidence, delegation and time management. Designed as a reference tool, it aims to help professionals excel in their careers by adopting innovative and sustainable management techniques.
5. Management for Dummies
“Management for Dummies” is a comprehensive guide for managers, whether novice or experienced. This book covers the full spectrum of management, from basic principles to advanced techniques for managing crises and change. It offers advice on how to lead, coach and motivate a team, set clear objectives and manage challenges. The book aims to improve your leadership to create an effective and respected team. It is not only limited to professional life, but suggests that these skills are also applicable to everyday life.
6. Reinventing Organizations
“Reinveting Organizations” is a work by Frédéric Laloux and Etienne Appert which focuses on an authentic way of conceiving companies. The book not only discusses theoretical models, but also describes a concrete and effective way of managing organizations using a unique management method. Many companies, associations, organizations, schools and hospitals have already put this method into practice. This work is aimed at those who have not had the chance to read the 500 pages of the first version of the book. Furthermore, the work is nicely decorated with remarkable illustrations by Etienne Appert.
7. The Art of Motivating
In a company, whatever its size, motivation plays an essential role. This book will be of interest to managers, beginners or experienced, who wish to know more about the keys to motivation. Through this practical work, the author explains how to motivate a team and maintain this motivation. Readers will also learn what mistakes to avoid so as not to extinguish motivation. The book includes numerous examples and presents practical, easy-to-test techniques as well as useful testimonials. When teams are motivated, and employees, or even investors, are also motivated, productivity increases considerably.
8. The Manager’s Toolbox
This book presents 51 practical sheets which offer simple and applicable answers to many situations that managers face. The author shows readers how to develop and maintain employee motivation. Readers will discover through this book the guidelines for successfully completing a project. “The Manager’s Toolbox” highlights the importance of digital marketing and highlights the sharing of field experience of a team manager. The book provides guidelines on how to exercise authority, how to mobilize your team, and how to communicate more effectively within a company.
9. Management of crisis situations
At one time or another, every business must face difficulties, even crises. “Managing crisis situations” is a work that offers an effective methodology helping companies to overcome crises. The book is structured and presents each stage of crisis management. Readers will learn how to anticipate threats and identify early warning signals. They will also discover how to organize themselves and how to manage situations of instability. In order to make the explanations more concrete, the author draws on real-life situations and highlights the important phase of debriefing.
10. The 100 management diagrams
With 228 pages, the book presents readers with a concept of management in images. To make learning even easier, the author presents 100 essential diagrams of organized management in the form of sheets. Readers will learn a visual approach that emphasizes major management theories. The book highlights 5 main parts corresponding to the issues: strategy, organization, management, change, personal and organizational development. The author adopts an operational approach, so each diagram corresponds to objectives, implementation methods, interests as well as limits. This book is aimed at both professionals and students.
11. The 110 golden rules of management
“The 110 golden rules of management” is a book written by Richard Templar which gives interesting information on how to create a strong and winning team. Through this book, the author gradually guides readers through methods to develop one’s full potential in order to manage an entire team more effectively. Furthermore, the practical advice given in this work has the advantage of being applicable, whatever the position occupied and the responsibilities involved. In addition, with this tool in hand, readers will learn more about how to found a dynamic and productive team.
12. The 5 keys to succeeding in your first steps as a manager
Written in 2014, this work aims to help everyone who is interested in business management. Indeed, this book constitutes a real guide for beginning managers. Furthermore, the book is written in a clear and easy to understand style in order to promote learning. Readers learn to appreciate the important issues of a change of position or taking up a new position. The author shares numerous examples as well as valuable advice for taking your first steps and achieving managerial success. The latter also describes the 5 keys you need to know to guarantee the prosperity of a business.