The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You

Do I Find It More Motivating to Achieve a Particular Outcome or to Play a Specific Role?

If the job is defined as getting better outcomes from a group of people working together, then a great manager’s team will consistently achieve great outcomes.

If you are wondering whether you can be a great manager, ask yourself these three questions.

If you can pinpoint a problem and motivate others to work with you to solve it, then you’re leading.

This is the crux of management: It is the belief that a team of people can achieve more than a single person going it alone. It is the realization that you don’t have to do everything yourself, be the best at everything yourself, or even know how to do everything yourself. Your job, as a manager, is to get better outcomes from a group of people wor

As a manager, you are judged on your team’s outcomes, so your job is to do whatever most helps them succeed.

As a manager, you are judged on your team’s outcomes, so your job is to do whatever most helps them succeed. If your team is lacking key skills, then you need to spend your time training or hiring. If someone is creating problems for others, then you need to get him to stop. If people don’t know what they should be doing, then you need to construct

Purpose, people, process. The why, the who, and the how.

If I spend all my time personally selling lemonade, then I’m contributing an additive amount to my business, not a multiplicative one. My performance as a manager would be considered poor because I’m actually operating as an individual contributor.