f you read nothing else on managing people, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you maximize your employees' performance.

This book will inspire you to:
Tailor your management styles to fit your people
Motivate with more responsibility, not more money
Support first-time managers
Build trust by soliciting input
Teach smart people how to learn from failure
Build high-performing teams
Manage your boss

Table of Contents

1. Leadership That Gets Results Daniel Goleman
2. One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees? Frederick Herzberg
3. The Set-Up-to-Fail Syndrome Manzoni, Jean-Francois and Barsoux, Jean-Louis
4. Saving Your Rookie Managers from Themselves Walker, Carol A.
5. What Great Managers Do Buckingham, Marcus
6. Fair Process: Managing in the Knowledge Economy Kim, W. Chan and Mauborgne, Renée
7. Teaching Smart People How to Learn Argyris, Chris
8. How (Un)ethical Are You? Banaji, Mahzarin R.; Bazerman, Max H.; and Chugh, Dolly
9. The Discipline of Teams Katzenbach, Jon R. and Smith, Douglas K.
10. Managing Your Boss John J. Gabarro and John P. Kotter