The Wall Street Journal Essential Guide to Management: Lasting Lessons from the Best Leadership Minds of Our Time

The Wall Street Journal Essential Guide to Management offers practical business advice and “Lasting Lessons from the Best Leadership Minds of Our Time.” Compiled by Alan Murray, Deputy Managing Editor of the Wall Street Journal, this is the definitive guide to how to be a successful manager from the world’s most respected business publication—an indispensible handbook for new managers and veterans alike, providing actionable advice and solid business strategies to help them put their best ideas to work.

Drawing on decades of insight from the world’s top business publication, this guide offers a masterclass in:

• Strategy and Execution: Learn to formulate a winning strategy and, more importantly, develop the discipline to see it through.
• Leadership and Motivation: Understand the crucial difference between managing and leading, and discover what truly motivates people to deliver their best work.
• Hiring and Team Building: Master the art of getting the right people on the bus, building effective teams, and making tough personnel decisions when necessary.
• Financial Literacy: Grasp the essential financial tools—from budgets to balance sheets—you need to keep your organization on track and make sound decisions.

From The Wall Street Journal comes the definitive guide to management ideas and practices with lasting impact.

For decades, understanding management—what works, and what doesn't—has been the pursuit of the world's best and brightest. Globally, there are more than 1,500 credible schools offering master's degrees in business administration, and hundreds of magazines and newspapers and thousands of books devoted to the subject. What's been missing is a simple and convenient way to disseminate the best ideas and practices to managers everywhere, at all levels and in all kinds of industries and organizations.

The Wall Street Journal Essential Guide to Management draws the best from the existing body of knowledge and research, and summarizes it in a simple, clear, and useful way. Focusing on classic and contemporary works that have been recommended by members of The Wall Street Journal CEO Council—all chief executives of large and successful global companies—it is an invaluable reference and essential tool for every manager, new and experienced alike.

“Well-written…readable…for serious consideration for any library business collection.” - Booklist

“A beautifully constructed guide for the would-be manager or veteran. Murray...[a]sophisticated business guru, is remarkably able to engage the reader and clarify subjects that are often discussed but seldom understood…. A winner.” - Publishers Weekly (starred review)