BOOKS BY BRUCE TULGAN

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Not Everyone Gets A Trophy Third Edition
DEVELOP YOUNG TALENT

How do you help promising people become strong contributors?

A new employee brings energy and potential. What will help them understand expectations, build good habits, and grow into responsibility?

Not Everyone Gets a Trophy

How to Bring Out the Best in Young Talent · Third edition

Bruce offers practical approaches to engaging, developing, and retaining young talent, from onboarding through leadership development.

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CHOOSE YOUR CHALLENGE

Put better practices within reach.

Start with the question that sounds most like your work.

It’s Okay to Be the Boss

Are you giving people the management they need?

Build a hands-on approach to expectations, guidance, feedback, and accountability.

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The 27 Challenges Managers Face

Does the same management problem keep returning?

Work through recurring challenges with practical steps and structured, substantive conversations.

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The Art of Being Indispensable at Work

Are you saying yes to more than you can deliver?

Manage competing requests, strengthen collaboration, and become someone others can count on.

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It’s Okay to Manage Your Boss

Are you getting the direction and support you need?

Take responsibility for your part in the relationship and build more effective communication with the people who manage you.

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Bridging the Soft Skills Gap 2nd Edition

Bridging the Soft Skills Gap

How to Teach the Missing Basics to the New Hybrid Workforce

Do your people need help with the missing basics?

Teach professionalism, critical thinking, and teamwork through practical coaching and development.

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Winning the Talent Wars: How to Hire and Retain the New Hybrid Workforce - Revised & Updated

Winning the Talent Wars

How to Hire and Retain the New Hybrid Workforce

What will help you attract and keep the talent you need?

Examine recruiting and retention in a workplace shaped by flexibility, mobility, and changing expectations.

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CLIENT EXPERIENCE

Learn a skill you can use.

“Managing employees well is a skill, not an art. Bruce Tulgan provides a clear guide to all the important techniques needed to be an effective manager.”

Peter Cappelli
George W. Taylor Professor of Management, the Wharton School

Title and affiliation at the time of the testimonial.

KEEP BUILDING YOUR TOOLKIT

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Find focused guidance on feedback, workplace relationships, generations, and performance.

Managing Generation X
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FAST Feedback
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Performance Under Pressure
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Career Skills for the New Economy
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HOT Management
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Managing Anger in the Workplace
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Managing the Generation Mix
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Recruiting the Workforce of the Future
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CONTRIBUTED WORK

HBR Guide to Remote Work

“The Art of Being Indispensable—from Wherever You’re Working,” introduction by Bruce Tulgan, Harvard Business Review Press, 2021.

FORTHCOMING MEMOIR

Keep learning. Keep practicing.

The Karate Master and Me

A Scared Little Boy, an Enigmatic Old Man, and My Lifelong Quest for Strength and Wisdom

Bruce’s forthcoming memoir draws on a lifetime of karate practice. Its lessons also inform his speaking program, Strength and Wisdom: Karate Lessons for Life and Work.

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TAKE THE NEXT STEP

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