25 Steps to Maximize Productivity

This best-seller, published in four different countries, in two languages, by five publishers is a classic text used by colleges and industry in management and supervisory development programs. The book provides a concise and practical guide to enabling management and non-management alike to achieve their best performance.

Installing Change: An Executive Guide for Implementing and Maintaining Organizational Change, Second Edition

This book is about how to implement change in organizations and how to make the desired change stick. At times the major obstacle facing management is how to get new programs, plans, philosophies, policies or strategies installed -- actually being performed by all employees in the organization.

Simple, Sensible Management

Simple Sensible Management was written for anyone who wants practical answers and proven techniques for successfully implementing their initiatives, executing their plans and managing their people. This text details the Mansis Performance Management System, an integrated systematic approach towards performance management, developed from years of research and experience and currently used in many manufacturing, service and government organizations.

Chicken Stew for Management

Written with Gordon L. Simpson

This is a collection of articles previously published in a variety of publications including the Toronto Globe & Mail, Manitoba Business and Canadian Manager. The articles give insightful answers to many of the fundamental leadership and management demands made on the “boss” to be a super, effective manager.

Principles of Managing People: The Fundamentals that All Managers Need to Manage People Successfully

This is not the usual management text with philosophies, theories and novel formulas promising success and profit. This is a field guide; a “Coles Notes” for management and executives on the fundamental principles that all managers must know and follow to manage people -- a resource clearly not for Dummies!

Guides for Successful Employment

This booklet contains a series of new and practical articles about how to increase success at developing a lasting employment relationship for both an organization and its new employees. The recruiting and hiring process is very expensive and time consuming for both a business and prospective employees, and this booklet is full of practical ideas to ensure the return on that investment.