Making the leap to management and leadership
In your career, or anyone's, there is one transition that stands out as
the most crucial--going from individual contributor to competent
manager.
New managers have to learn how to lead others rather than do the work
themselves, to win trust and respect, to motivate, and to strike the
right balance between delegation and control. Many fail to make the
transition successfully.
In this timeless, indispensable book, Harvard Business School professor
and leadership guru Linda Hill traces the experiences of nineteen new
managers over the course of their first year in the role. She reveals
the complexity of the transition, highlighting the expectations of these
managers, their subordinates, and their superiors. We hear the new
managers describe:
- How they reframed their understanding of their roles and
responsibilities
- How they learned to build effective cross-functional work
relationships
- How and when they used individual and organizational resources
- And how they learned to cope with the inevitable stresses of
leadership
Hill vividly shows that becoming a manager is a profound psychological
adjustment--a true transformation--as well as a continuous process of
learning from experience.
Becoming a Manager, a veritable treasury of essential leadership
wisdom, is a book you will turn to again and again no matter where you
are on your career journey.
