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How to Be a Great Boss Hardcover – September 13, 2016

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If your employees brought their "A-Game" to work every day, what would it mean for your company's performance?

Studies have repeatedly shown that the majority of employees are disengaged at work. But it doesn't have to be this way. Often, the difference between a group of indifferent employees and a fully engaged team comes down to one simple thing—a great boss.

In How to Be a Great Boss, Gino Wickman and Rene' Boer present a straightforward, practical approach to help bosses at all levels of an organization get the most from their people. They share time-tested tools that have worked for more than 30,000 bosses in every industry. You can learn to be a great boss—and dramatically improve both your organization's performance and your team's excitement about their work.

In this book you will discover:

How to surround yourself with great people
How to make more effective use of your time
The difference between leadership and management and why they're equally important
The five leadership practices and five management practices of all great bosses
How to create accountability
How to develop productive, relationships with each of your people
How to deal with direct reports that don't meet your expectations

How to Be a Great Boss provides practical tools that you can apply immediately with your people, allowing you to focus on improving and growing your organization and truly enjoy what you do.
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 "Helpful to managers and entrepreneurs in many different types of workplaces."

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Author of the bestselling Traction Gino Wickman's passion is helping people get what they want from their businesses. To fulfill that passion, Wickman created the Entrepreneurial Operating System® (EOS), a holistic system that, when implemented in an organization, helps leaders run better businesses, get better control, have better life balance, and gain more traction—with the entire organization advancing together as a healthy, functional, and cohesive team. Wickman spends most of his time as an EOS Implementer, working hands-on with the leadership teams of entrepreneurial companies to help them fully implement EOS in their organizations. He is the founder of EOS Worldwide, a growing organization of successful entrepreneurs from a variety of business backgrounds collaborating as certified EOS Implementers to help people throughout the world to experience all the organizational and personal benefits of implementing EOS. He also delivers workshops and keynote addresses.

René Boer has more than 30 years of experience in the restaurant industry helping leadership teams succeed at well-known brands such as Pizza Hut and Jamba Juice. As an EOS Implementer, he's worked with hundreds of bosses at privately-held companies helping them align their teams to achieve a shared vision. He is passionate about helping clients achieve freedom by focusing on what they love to do and are great at doing. René has been a life-long cyclist and organized a unique cycling event, the Sub-5 Ride, in 2010, to support the Davis Phinney Foundation's mission to help people living with Parkinson's Disease live well today. He and his wife Judy live near Chicago, and they have two daughters and four grandchildren.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ BenBella Books (September 13, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 184 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1942952848
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1942952848
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.75 x 0.71 x 8.56 inches
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    An entrepreneur since the age of 21, Gino has always had an obsession for learning what makes businesses and entrepreneurs thrive.

    At 25, Gino took over the family business, which was deeply in debt and in need of help. After turning the company around and running it for seven years, he and his partners successfully sold the company.

    Gino then set out to help entrepreneurs and leaders get what they want from their businesses and lives.

    Based on his years of real-word experience, Gino created the Entrepreneurial Operating System® (EOS®), a practical method for helping companies achieve greatness.

    Gino has personally delivered more than 2,000 full-day sessions for more than 135 companies, helping them implement EOS. He is also the author of the award-winning, best-selling book Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business, which has sold over 1 million copies, as well as five other books in the Traction Library that have sold over 2 million copies.

    Today Gino’s focus remains on helping entrepreneurs and leaders, maximize their freedom, creativity, and impact through teaching and speaking on the following topics:

    👉 ENTREPRENEURIAL LEAP — Gino’s passion project, focused on helping entrepreneurs-in-the-making, is packed with real-life stories and practical advice. Entrepreneurial Leap is a simple how-to manual to help you start a better start-up.

    👉 ROCKET FUEL — Rocket Fuel details the integral roles of the Visionary and Integrator™ and explains how an effective relationship between the two can thrive. When these two people come together to share their natural talents and innate skill sets, they have the power to reach new heights for virtually any company or organization.

    👉 EOS (ENTREPRENEURIAL OPERATING SYSTEM) — EOS is a set of simple concepts and practical tools used by more than 250,000 companies around the world to clarify, simplify, and achieve their vision.

    👉 THE EOS LIFE — You deserve to live your ideal life. As an entrepreneurial business leader, you already know how hard it can be just to create a non-ideal life. Now let Gino show you how to create the entrepreneurial life you always hoped and dreamed it could be.

    👉 THE 10 DISCIPLINES FOR MANAGING AND MAXIMIZING YOUR ENERGY — Each of these disciplines is fast, simple, and powerful. They will help you expand, focus, and manage your energy. Each one of them is fully customizable to you, because you are a unique individual.

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Probably my favorite section about how to deal with undesirable behaviors from employees (this is the type of actionaable thoughout this book): If your direct report fails to deliver and doesn't see or admit they are not delivering, you have to identify the issue(s), have three examples per issue, ensure that person acknowledges and agrees that they're below the bar you've set before determining an appropriate action plan, have a meeting with them to correct it via an action plan. Do this two-months in a row and fire at the end of the second month.
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Tim Turner
5.0 out of 5 stars Practical leadership and management tools
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Great complement to Traction by the same author. I’m going to use this as I implement EOS and continue to work to earn the title “boss” on a team of A Players.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Good book
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This is a good book for anybody who manages people
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Kathleen
4.0 out of 5 stars Practical tools and tips for leaders and managers
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I liked the simplicity of the message- this was a quick read. As with Wickman’s other books about the EOS- (Traction and Get a Grip), there are useful forms included and helpful lists and exercises to lead and manage others. This book will be most useful for entrepreneurs who want to be great leaders and managers of people in their organizations, and likely don’t have HR professionals on staff to advise them. The only reason I didn’t rank this a 5 is that I am a tough rater, and this didn’t include any new information for me- it covers the basics, so is a good refresher for some who already know these principles.
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A. Lui
5.0 out of 5 stars Great boss material
Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2024
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Used it for our leadership retreat - very practical stuff and recommend for all boss folks
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5.0 out of 5 stars Management is not what you do to someone; it's what you provide for someone
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Probably my favorite section about how to deal with undesirable behaviors from employees (this is the type of actionaable thoughout this book): If your direct report fails to deliver and doesn't see or admit they are not delivering, you have to identify the issue(s), have three examples per issue, ensure that person acknowledges and agrees that they're below the bar you've set before determining an appropriate action plan, have a meeting with them to correct it via an action plan. Do this two-months in a row and fire at the end of the second month.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Management is not what you do to someone; it's what you provide for someone
Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2023
Probably my favorite section about how to deal with undesirable behaviors from employees (this is the type of actionaable thoughout this book): If your direct report fails to deliver and doesn't see or admit they are not delivering, you have to identify the issue(s), have three examples per issue, ensure that person acknowledges and agrees that they're below the bar you've set before determining an appropriate action plan, have a meeting with them to correct it via an action plan. Do this two-months in a row and fire at the end of the second month.
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5.0 out of 5 stars You don't have to be the boss to use this book
Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2023
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Applies to a lot of things. Very good read
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GiGi
5.0 out of 5 stars Management Reminders
Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2023
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Amazing Outlook! Best Buy .
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Wmcp123
3.0 out of 5 stars some good content
Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2022
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overall a good read. Only negative, it seems designed to get you to use their larger program which would be a large purchase. But I did think it was worth it overall.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Leitura imperdível para empresários
Reviewed in Brazil on March 27, 2022
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O ponto negativo do livro é que é em inglês, então quem não tem intimidade com a língua pode não aproveitar muito, porém não precisa ser fluente, o livro não usa termos técnicos e já seguindo a linha de Gino Wickman, ele usa uma linguagem simples e objetiva, o que facilita a leitura para os que tem inglês intermediário e avançado.

O livro já começa quebrando uma barreira minha sobre o termo chefe, eu que não gostava muito de ser chamado assim, passei a ter simpatia, originário do holandês. “Baas” é usado para a pessoa que está liderando como uma forma de respeito. Mas veja que ele é usado pelo liderado e não pelo líder. Você pode se chamar de gerente, diretor, presidente, mas não de chefe, isso cabe ao seu liderado te identificar como tal.

Leitura para todos os gestores. Iniciantes irão tirar ótimos aprendizados. Experientes se não tiver aprendizados, com certeza gostarão da leitura para reforçar alguns valores e encontrar um pouco de combustível para realizar essa desafiadora missão de liderar.

Ótima leitura!!!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in Canada on January 31, 2022
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Perfect follow up to What the Heck is EOS
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Raunaq
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect book condition
Reviewed in India on May 28, 2021
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Book as described and excellent condition
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Danielle
5.0 out of 5 stars Every leader should read!!!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 29, 2019
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Great leadership book!
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Angus
5.0 out of 5 stars Easy Practical Read
Reviewed in Australia on October 23, 2022
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In a world of complicated management texts, this book is fantastically simple to grasp and has practical tools to implement. Anyone contemplating a cultural challenge in their organisation should consider this read.
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