Improving Your Management Skills by Rodney Overton

The author has many case studies and famous leaders' management styles in this book which makes this book as good as reading the biographies of those leaders. With only 153 pages and easily read fonts, this book is a easy read.

The 3 main skills are Management Skills, Human Resource Skills and Marketing Skills. In management skills, it started off with a good definition of what is a good manager and the leadership qualities of a leader. Today, many businesses have to make radical changes to the way they manage to survive. The steps to implement changes, the risk to manage, the strategies involving human resource, service and lastly on benchmarking are elaborated under management skills chapter.

Human Resource Skills talks about the manager's personality. What personalities are good or bad? Then, it went on about retaining talents, communication and learning, coaching, managing stress and how fitness of staff can increase productivity and morale in the company.

Marketing Skills are the skills needed to market a product or service. The chapter shows the factors influencing the consumer and the marketing basics for a business.

The last chapter is all about case studies, which includes Jack Welch of GE.

This is a good read which is suitable for beginner in the junior management level.