Becoming a Manager, Linda A. Hill
Becoming a Manager, Linda A. Hill
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Becoming a Manager
How New Managers Master the Challenges of Leadership

Author: Linda A. Hill

Narrator: Machelle Williams

Unabridged: 12 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 12/29/2020

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

In your career, 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Irmina on September 20, 2023

Summary: True to its title, the book describes how new managers handle the challenges of transitioning into their first manager role. Part 1 highlights how managers gain a better understanding of what the role is about by reconciling their expectations with reality, and the expectations of others. Par......more

Goodreads review by Nidhi on April 18, 2020

I would classify Becoming a Manager as a very long read with some repetitive things in the book. The book for the start focuses too much on people in sales and a lot of parts may not be relevant to everyone who is reading the book! Nevertheless I enjoyed some parts of the book which talks about what......more

Goodreads review by Steve on April 14, 2019

This book was Stevo's Business Book of the Week for the week of 4/14, as selected by Stevo's Book Reviews on the Internet. You can find more reviews and recommendations on my Amazon Influencer page: [URL not allowed]......more

Goodreads review by Arun on November 08, 2020

This book is a logical approach towards understanding nuances of various circumstances & experiences which new managers go through. This is not a how-to or self help kinda book but rather gives perspective on the journey of transition from individual contributor to a manager.......more