TITLE: Be a Great Boss: One Year to Success
AUTHOR: Catherine Hakala-Ausperk
STARTED: March 24, 2011
FINISHED: April 12, 2011
PAGES: 215
GENRE: Library Science
FIRST SENTENCE: [From the Preface] You've just been promoted, or maybe you've just appointed a new person to be the "boss."
SUMMARY: [From Amazon.com
] Moving into a library management position can feel like a daunting and solitary pursuit. Graduate school courses in management are expensive and often hard to find, and even having a mentor at hand is no guarantee of a successful transition. To help library managers improve their skills and acumen, renowned speaker and trainer Hakala-Ausperk presents a handy self-study guide to the dynamic role of being a boss. Organized in 52 modules, designed to cover a year of weekly sessions but easily adaptable for any pace, this workbook:- Covers major management topics such as success with stakeholders, staffing, customer service, planning, funding, leadership, and more
- Offers an inexpensive alternative to seminars and classroom instruction
- Requires an investment of as little as an hour per week, and is completely self-paced
- Includes challenging questions and exercises, and a Web-based template to record learning progress
THOUGHTS: More workbook than actual book, Be a Great Boss lays out the basic lessons of supervision. This book confirmed my actions more than it taught me new ones, but it was a good book to read. The author has done a great job of showing how to be a great boss. She breaks the book's chapters down into "weeks." In each week, the reader is supposed to learn a new lesson of "boss-hood." This structure makes the book easy to take in and follow. Addtionally, this structure shows how the different parts of being a boss work together over time.
I would heartily recommend this to anyone who is a new boss. Old bosses may learn a new lesson or two, but everyone could benefit from the lessons the author teaches.
RATING: 6/10 [Good]
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