We are very interested in your experiences from using the Library!
Please provide us any suggestions, compliments, complaints, etc., that you believe might help to improve the Library.
You can provide your information privately to the Library administrators by using the appropriate form in the section “Contact Us” referenced from the sidebar.
This section is about requests for help specifically in regard to using the Library system.
We are not staffed to provide consultation regarding the content of various articles and about issues and goals in your organization.
The Library is managed by a group of part-time volunteer administrators. Thus, response time to your requests for help might take up to a few days.
Therefore, if you need help in making the most of your use of the Library, we suggest the following, depending on the nature of your need:
For any other questions, send email directly to Library administrators by using the appropriate form in the section “Contact Us” referenced from the sidebar. Thank you!
New links to free resources about management are added regularly to the Library. Rather than your having to frequently go to the Library and search for any additions, you can conveniently be notified of additions of free resources by receiving email notifications of these additions.
You can subscribe to regular updates (at least once a month) by sending a blank email to
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We will not share your email address with anyone else. See our Privacy Policy.
You need your own Twitter account (it takes about 3 minutes to create an account at http://www.twitter.com.
You’ll end up on your own Twitter account page. Then go to the Library’s Twitter account and click on “Follow”.
Each new Library update will result in a message on your Twitter page. The message will have the name of the update, as well as its web address.
Just go to the Library’s Fan Page. Click on the “Wall” tab. Read the announcements on that Wall page.
Just click on this logo.
Go to the home page of the blogs and notice the list of blogs to the right. Visit which blogs interest you. (Some of them are quite active and others are quite quiet.) To subscribe, notice the link to subscribe in each of the blogs.
This policy covers the website “Free Management Library” at https://staging.management.org and associated services (collectively the “Services”) that may be made available through use of the Website. The Website and the Services are owned and operated by Paradise Media, LLC (“Paradise Media”). After reading this policy, should you have privacy questions or concerns, send an email to contact@paradisemedia.com.
This policy explains how we (as Paradise Media) collect, protect and use information about visitors and users of our Website, including 1) non-personally identifiable information and also 2) personally identifiable information if visitors and users choose to provide it. It also explains how they can have that personal information changed or deleted if they desire. We collect and manage all of this information to make the Website and associated Services work better for our visitors and users.
By visiting the Website or using the Services, you agree to the collection and use of information in the manner described in this policy. Paradise Media shall have right at any time and without prior notice, at its sole discretion, to revise this policy. If we makes material changes to this policy, we will notify you by email, by means of a notice the next time you log in to the Website, or when you next utilize the associated Services. Such revisions and additions shall be effective immediately upon notice. You are responsible for reviewing the Website’s Data Privacy Policy periodically for any modification. Any access or use of the Website or Services by you after notice of modifications to this Policy shall constitute and be deemed to be your agreement to such modifications.
We get this type of information only if you choose to provide it. You can also opt out from, change or delete the information at any time. For example, you might provide your name and email address when you subscribe to a newsletter, share feedback to us or subscribe to a blog. You might also provide your postal address, phone number and credit/debit card numbers if you purchase a publication from us. You are responsible for the accuracy of the personal information, including updates or additions.
In addition to the personal information you supply, we may automatically collect certain non-personally identifiable technical information. The technologies we may use to gather this information may include use of “cookies”.
Cookies are very small pieces of information a user’s browser stores on the user’s computer. We collect this information to (1) evaluate how visitors, guests, and customers use the Website and/or the Services; (2) evaluate the performance of our Website and Services, and (3) also provide you with personalized information if you opt in for that kind of information. You may modify your browser preferences to accept all cookies, be notified when a cookie is set, or reject all cookies. Please consult your browser instructions for information on how to modify your choices about cookies. If you modify your browser preferences, certain features of the Website may not be available to you.
The Website uses a tool called “Google Analytics” to improve the use of the Website. Google Analytics does not collect users’ names or personally identifiable information (information that could be used to personally identify or contact you); it collects only the IP address from which the user accessed the Website. Google analyzes the activity from that address to record the user’s time of the visit to the Website, time spent on its pages, the website where the user was referred from, and the user’s type of browser and operating system. To collect that information, Google places a cookie on the user’s computer. The cookies cannot be used by any organization other than Google. Description of how Google Analytics collects and processes this information is described at How Google uses data when you use our partner’s sites or apps. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this Website is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy.
IP addresses define the Internet location of computers and help us better understand the geographic distribution of our visitors and customers and manage the performance of the Website. Cookies are placed onto the hard drive of your computer when you visit the Website, so we can immediately recognize you when you return to the Website and deliver content specific to your interests.
We may detect the type of web browser you are using to optimize the performance of the Website and to understand the mix of browsers used by our visitors, guests, and customers. To learn about how people use our site, we examine various logs of IP usage information, which show the paths people take through the Website and how long they spend in certain areas.
When you use the Services, the Services may collect, in very general terms, your current physical location, your mobile device model number, your mobile device operating system version, and the time when you observed the images or other information provided by the Application. We use that information to ensure the Website and Services conform to the most commonly used devices and operating systems and the timing of their uses.
You can register (opt-in) on the Website or when using the Services to receive promotions and updates, or to be contacted for market research purposes. You can control your privacy preferences regarding such marketing communications (see the section below entitled “Your Privacy Preferences”).
From time to time, you may be invited to participate in optional customer surveys or promotions, and Paradise Media may request that you provide some or all of the above listed personal information in those surveys or promotions. We use information collected from surveys and promotions to learn about our customers in order to improve our services and develop new products and services of interest to our customers.
You agree that we are authorized to use, reproduce and generally make such information available to third parties in the aggregate, provided that your information shall not include personally identifiable information about you or be attributable to you.
Paradise Media may contract with unaffiliated third parties (e.g. Google) to provide services such as data hosting, advertising, analytics and other services. When we do this, we may provide your personally identifiable information to third parties only to provide those services, and they are explicitly not authorized to use your personally identifiable information for any other purpose.
You agree that we are authorized to use, reproduce and generally make such information available to third parties in the aggregate, provided that your information shall not include personally identifiable information about you or be attributable to you.
THE WEBSITE AND THE SERVICES ARE NOT INTENDED FOR USE BY CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 13.
We do not share personal information with third parties for their own direct marketing purposes without your consent. California residents under 18 years old may request and obtain removal of personal information or content about you and posted on our site. Please be mindful that this would not ensure complete removal of the content posted on our site by you. To make any request pursuant to California privacy law, please contact us.
Send Paradise Media an email at contact@paradisemedia.com if you want to access, review, correct or delete your personally identifiable information collected by Paradise Media. To protect your privacy and security, Paradise Media will request certain personally identifiable information to verify your identity before granting you the right to access, review, make corrections or deletions to your personally identifiable information.
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order or legal process.
It is also possible that Paradise Media may sell one or more of its businesses. If so, then customer information, including your information, may be among the assets that are transferred. If we decide to so transfer your personal information, then you will be notified by an email sent to the last known email address in our files.
The Website and/or the Services may contain links to other websites or other services Paradise Media is not responsible for the privacy practices of those other sites or services. This policy only applies to information directly collected by Paradise Media.
Paradise Media reserves the right to make amendments to the above information at any time, and such amendments will be in effect immediately.
Last Updated: October 1, 2021
If you are located in an EU country or jurisdiction, you might have additional rights as specified in the EU
General Data Protection Regulations.
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The Library added numerous new services for our users, including the ability for them to:
We hope that you enjoy and benefit from the many new features. We would appreciate your feedback. Use this form.
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We have reviewed the following books to ensure their relevance and practicality in each of their major categories.
Since 1995
Whether you are looking to improve yourself, how you work with others or how you work with groups, here are 1,000s of free, online resources to do that!
Or, if you are thinking about starting a new organization, or wanting to improve how you lead and manage in your current organization, you’ve come to the right place.
So where do you want to start?
The Free Management Library can be freely used for your own personal, professional and organizational development (including for-profit and nonprofit organizations). To learn more about the purpose, the information, some history and the developer of the Library, see About the Free Management Library. Here are some tips to get the most out of using the Library.
People use the Library, primarily for three purposes:
You might be from a for-profit or nonprofit organization that you want to improve. Each type has some unique terms used for concepts that actually are in common between both types of organizations. See Free Management Library Includes Materials for For-Profit and Nonprofit Organizations.
A translation utility is available in the upper left-hand corner of each page in the Library and near the upper left-hand corner in each blog. It translates into almost 60 languages, using the Translate link, which, in turn, uses the Google translator engine. As with any automated translator, there are often miss-translations. While not as accurate and reliable as a human translator, the automated utility does provide value to users of other languages.
On the home page, notice:
On the left side of all pages, notice:
On the right side of all pages, notice:
Now, go into a topic, for example, How to Self-Reflect and notice it:
We want to help you to use the resources in the Library, including to reprint articles where appropriate. Read Copyright and Reprint Terms to see how to reprint materials from the Library.
Regarding citing contents from the Library, for example, in an article or research paper that you are writing:
The Library averages 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 unique visitors a month.
You can get this large audience to see your free web information, e.g., a free article that you wrote.
Just find the web address of that free information and submit that address (URL or link) to the Library.
But the link should be directly to the free resource, NOT to another webpage (e.g., a home page) that makes the reader have to find the link to the free resource.
To submit your link, Click here
