Managing people is like climbing mountains. Both are challenges with no easy solution. There are multiple approaches one can try, but few will be successful.

Making the Puzzle Pieces Fit: An Interest-based Approach to Management and Leadership provides the skills and gear needed to reach the management peak. 

This book is a seamlessly integrated enhanced learning package about management for undergraduate, graduate students, and laypeople. It emphasizes that management is personal by helping the reader identify the interests of people.  Using real-life examples of every-day challenges faced by managers, the authors train the reader to recognize subtle yet important information often overlooked by business leaders.

This multimedia book combines pages of instruction on a disc with over two hours of online video and audio segments for the reader to practice using the skills learned. Included is a registration code for six months of free access to supplementary on-line multimedia exercises.

• Development of cases to focus on practical application of management, real life scenarios such as firing unproductive employees, and effectively connecting with supervisors, co-workers and other employees.

• Authors emphasize the importance of skill based on practice not memorized theory.

• 90 minutes of audio and video demonstrations of difficult personnel problems. The material is contained on the DVD and links directly to the companion site which houses additional audio/video.

• Listen to experts discuss how to respond to difficult personnel situations based on their own experiences.