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Loading... Becoming a Manager: How New Managers Master the Challenges of Leadershipby Linda A. Hill
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This was a great book. I strongly recommend it to anyone that is thinking that they will become a manager anytime in the future. It really highlights the differences between being a top performer in a field and becoming a manager in that field. I'm very glad I read it and will definitely reread parts of if I start thinking about taking a management position. no reviews | add a review
In your career, or anyone's, there is one transition that stands out as the most crucial--going from individual performer 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, essential 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 the 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 work relationships, how and when they used individual and organizational resources, and how they learned to cope with the inevitable stresses of leadership. Hill shows that becoming a manager is a profound psychological adjustment--a true transformation--as well as a process of learning from experience. And she also offers concrete advice on dealing effectively with organizational politics, developing and leading diverse teams, and how managers can prepare themselves to lead over the course of their careers. No book has captured what it takes to make the crucial transition to leadership at work better than Becoming a Manager.-- No library descriptions found. |
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