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Review: '12: The Elements of Great Managing' by Rodd Wagner & James Harte

Great businesses attract and retain talented and productive people. If you want to create an environment where people work happily and productively, this book will teach you how.

12: The Elements of Great Managing is a follow-up to First, Break All The Rules that teaches you how to keep your employees happy and create a strong company culture.

Like all of Gallup's books, this text is backed by an extraordinary degree of research, observation, and empirical evidence. Focusing on what keeps employees actively engaged in their work, Wagner and Harter have discovered twelve elements that largely determine how satisfied people are with their work. Unlike other texts on employee satisfaction, each element is supported by data drawn from thousands of companies around the world, not anecdotal evidence, so you can put full faith and trust in the recommendations in this book.

If your people really are "your greatest asset," read 12: The Elements of Great Managing and make it a priority to create a plan to improve your company's performance on each of these twelve elements as soon as possible.


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