Includes index. Hanks, K. (1990). Up your productivity. Los Altos, Calif. : Crisp Publications.

This book can help your productivity -- The people hassle -- The manager hassle -- Death by institutionalization -- Vicious spiral of behavior -- Three steps toward needed change -- Biting off more than you can chew -- A murphy cushion -- The ideal manager -- Doing whatever is necessary -- Pulling strings -- The price of leadership -- Time management for managers -- Hiring the right people to start with -- Miss management -- When the boss's baby is an ugly brat -- Seeing reality behind the shadows -- Efficiency versus effectiveness -- Private space -- The opportunity to fail -- Givers and takers -- Producers and consumers -- Too many chiefs -- Excellence -- Give him a little praise -- Watering weeds or rewarding right -- Manipulation won't work -- Why people aren't responsible -- Cutting out the hierarchy distance -- Cutting out the operations distance -- Choosing who makes the choices -- Are you holding your people back? -- The manager's guide to performance appraisal and job requirements -- A lot of talk -- Walking in another's shoes -- Why others see things so differently -- The pressure dynamic -- Keep it simple -- A sucker for the fad -- Creative procrastination -- Too many balls in the air -- The secret of not making waves -- Trivia overload -- Impatience can kill -- Turning employees into lead - or gold? -- What if someone drops the bucket? -- A powerful method for getting cooperation -- The 80/20 rule -- The destructive promotion -- Three ideas for dealing with the double bind -- Too many hands make hard work -- Following the leader into trouble -- If it isn't broken, don't fix it -- Climbing out of the rut -- Full lion's don't hunt -- But that's the way we've always done it -- The constant called change -- Flexibility -- Overspecializing specialists -- Saving for tomorrow -- From stagnant to applied knowledge -- Throwing your competition -- Three ways to grow -- How do i know how productive we are? -- Learning from the most productive people in the world -- Thirty-nine proven principles for increasing productivity -- The dangerous quality of poor organizations -- The mysterious quality of great organizations