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To manage people well, you must develop trusting relationships with them, understand their strengths and weaknesses (as well as your own), make good decisions about who should do what (including hiring and firing when necessary), and coach individuals to do their best.
Julie Zhuo • The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
Making It Work at Work: A Guide to Career Development and Fulfillment (Collection)
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Leadership - Learning to Lead Yourself, Part 1
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Jeffrey Hiatt • ADKAR: A Model for Change in Business, Government and our Community
In your early days as a manager, what matters most is transitioning gracefully into the role and nailing the essentials of leading a small team. Only when you have built trust with your reports will you have the credibility to help them achieve more together.
Julie Zhuo • The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
book, Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter.
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
My goal is to structure teams around minimizing “coordination headwind,” as described by Alex Komoroske in this deck on seeing organizations as slime mold. The rough idea is that coordination costs (caused by uncertainty and disagreements) increase with scale, and adding managers doesn’t improve things. People’s incentives become misaligned. People... See more