James Manktelow is founder of MindTools.com, an online leadership development resource that helps more than 24 million people each year become better managers and more inspiring leaders.

Professor Julian Birkinshaw is deputy dean for programs at London Business School. He is author of more than fourteen books, including Fast/Forward, Becoming a Better Boss, and Reinventing Management.

James and Julian wrote Mind Tools for Managers: 100 Ways to be a Better Boss to give managers a quick, easy-to-access way of learning the core skills they need to be effective in their roles.

To write the book, they surveyed 15,242 managers around the world to identify the skills that they thought were most important across the four key domains of management – managing yourself, managing tasks, working with and managing other people, and managing the wider context, also known as developing commercial awareness.

Based on this, the book introduces new and experienced managers to the 100 most important skills needed to be a successful boss. New managers can use the book to quickly learn the tricky and non-obvious skills they need to manage their teams successfully. More experienced managers can use the book to round out their skillset, but also to build the skills they need to be successful at the next level.

The book is written to be a well-organised, quick-to-access, go-to guide for managers to learn the skills they need to manage people really well. More than this, it gives organisations a robust, well-researched package that they can give to new managers to help them master the all-important art of getting the best from their teams.

Good management is the difference between success and failure for organisations the world over, and Mind Tools for Managers gives a great starting point for management development, along with pointers to other resources so that people can develop their skills and their knowledge still further.

Mind Tools for Managers: 100 Ways to be a Better Boss has been shortlisted for the HR & Management Category of the Business Book Awards sponsored by Pathway Group. To get your copy of the book Click Here