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Title: Terrible book
Review: I simply don't get how come this book got so many good reviews. I've actually read Esther Derby's "Agile Retrospectives" book (which was good), and so I decided to buy this one.Unfortunately it was plain bad:- boring, too simplistic and style-wise poorly written- very basic. Meetings facilitation, one-on-ones, delegation, portfolio management, check-lists for new employees - is this all what management is about?- not a single word about leadership. The authors lost me almost instantly by writing that "We don't buy the fact that management is different from leadership" in the Introduction. It is actually different and what they're describing all the way are just pure management techniques.- a very limited, fake setup describing a mid-level manager that manages a group of managers. How about managing a technical group directly?Wasted money, wasted time.
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