What Small Business Gets Wrong About People: A Practical Guide to Hiring, Leading and Managing Without Becoming Corporate - Couverture souple

Hackett, Nathan

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ISBN 10 : 1764601513 ISBN 13 : 9781764601511

Editeur : Nathan Hackett, 2026

Synopsis

Running a small business is hard. Managing people should not make it harder.

Too many small business owners end up managing staff issues reactively — a performance problem left too long, a difficult conversation avoided, a complaint handled informally, a resignation that comes out of nowhere, or a people decision made under pressure that creates bigger problems later.

What Small Business Gets Wrong About People is a practical, straight-talking guide for business owners, managers and leaders who want to lead people well without becoming corporate, overcomplicating the process, or needing a full internal HR team.

Drawing on real-world people management experience, this book explains the common mistakes small businesses make with hiring, communication, performance, accountability, culture and compliance — and, more importantly, what to do instead.

Inside, you will learn how to:

• recognise people issues before they damage performance, morale and growth
• set clearer expectations and create stronger role clarity
• manage performance and conduct issues earlier, fairly and more confidently
• build trust without avoiding difficult conversations
• reduce risk while still leading with common sense
• put simple people systems in place before problems become expensive
• make better people decisions before small issues become major problems

This is not a legal textbook and it is not theory for theory’s sake. It is a grounded, accessible guide for leaders who want a business that is easier to run, safer to manage and better for the people in it.

Whether you employ a handful of staff or lead a growing team, this book will help you move from reactive people management to a more confident, consistent and defensible approach.

Because when small business gets people right, everything works better.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Nathan Hackett is an experienced human resources and employee relations practitioner with a background in senior HR leadership, workplace investigations, performance management, organisational change, and practical people leadership.He is the founder of Winnchester Consulting, an HR and employee relations consultancy supporting small and medium-sized businesses with clear, commercially grounded and legally aware workplace advice. His work focuses on helping business owners and leaders make better people decisions without unnecessary complexity.Nathan holds a Bachelor of Business in Human Resource Management and a Master of Business by Research, and is currently completing a Bachelor of Science in Psychology. His approach combines practical HR experience, evidence-informed thinking, and a strong understanding of how workplace decisions affect both people and business outcomes.Through his writing, Nathan aims to make people management clearer, more accessible and more useful for business owners, managers and emerging leaders. His work challenges common assumptions about workplace behaviour, leadership responsibility and HR process, while offering practical guidance that can be applied in real workplaces.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Nathan Hackett
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1764601513
• ISBN 13: 9781764601511
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 226
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg