What's It Really Take To Be A Great Manager?

Marty Nemko
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<b class="credit">Marty Nemko</b>Contributor and NPR-SF regular Marty Nemko with his wife, Barbara Nemko.
Marty NemkoContributor and NPR-SF regular Marty Nemko with his wife, Barbara Nemko.


Because I write and talk about career issues, publishers send me lots of management and leadership books and, alas, most say very similar things. I got excited, though, when I received Harvard Business Review's Ten Must Read Books on Management and Leadership. Each of the ten is an article written by a luminary: for example, Good to Great author Jim Collins, Peter Drucker, who wrote 39 books, and emotional intelligence guru Daniel Goleman. On a recent edition of my NPR-San Francisco radio program, Work with Marty Nemko, I invited a special leader to discuss the book with me: one of the nation's top innovative schools superintendents (and my wife), Dr. Barbara Nemko.

Here are the show's highlights, lightly edited for space and coherence.

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