title: The New Manager's Handbook (The Briefcase Books)
author:  Brad Lee Thompson 
description: Try wingwalking at 50,000 feet with no visible means of support-an apt metaphor for today's harried managers. Thompson, an author and business trainer, offers this basic management guide to key managerial skills, especially for newly appointed managers. Thompson covers most of the essentials here, such as becoming a new manager, supervisory principles, planning, organizing, influencing, facilitating, and, of course, communicating, delegating, hiring, and performance managing. With the sections on workforce diversity, stress management, career development, and conflict management, Thompson nicely updates, but doesn't replace, Peter Drucker's ageless model, Management (1974). Add this to your collection of Tom Peters's works and the vast array of new thinking on leadership, and you have the beginnings of a sound management collection.<BR><I>Dale Farris, Groves, Tex.</I><BR>Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  [**Negotiating**](http://dx.doi.org/10.1036/0071387579)
  
  
  [**Skills for**](http://dx.doi.org/10.1036/0071387579)
  
  
  [**Managers**](http://dx.doi.org/10.1036/0071387579)
  
  
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  **Other titles in the Briefcase Books series include:**
  
  
  _**Customer Relationship Management**_
  
  
  **by Kristin Anderson and Carol Kerr**
  
  
  _**Communicating Effectively**_ **by Lani Arredondo**
  
  
  _**Performance Management**_ **by Robert Bacal**
  
  
  _**Recognizing and Rewarding Employees**_ **by R. Brayton Bowen**
  
  
  _**Six Sigma for Managers**_ **by Greg Brue**
  
  
  _**Motivating Employees**_ **by Anne Bruce and James S. Pepitone**
  
  
  _**Leadership Skills for Managers**_ **by Marlene Caroselli**
  
  
  _**Effective Coaching**_ **by Marshall J. Cook**
  
  
  _**Conflict Resolution**_ **by Daniel Dana**
  
  
  _**Project Management**_ **by Gary R. Heerkens**
  
  
  _**Managing Teams**_ **by Lawrence Holpp**
  
  
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