Description
Unlock your potential with **Being the Boss, with a New Preface**. In this essential management guide, Harvard Business School's Linda Hill and executive coach Kent Lineback illuminate the challenging journey of becoming a successful leader. Facing conflicting expectations from employees, superiors, and peers often leaves aspiring managers feeling overwhelmed. However, this empowering book offers expert advice to navigate the complexities of management, providing readers with the tools to thrive in their roles.
Master the three crucial imperatives:
- **Manage Yourself**: Discover that effective management is not about doing everything yourself; it's about inspiring and empowering your team to accomplish tasks collectively.
- **Manage a Network**: Learn to leverage power dynamics at work by cultivating a network of supportive relationships, essential for navigating the intricate politics of your organization.
- **Manage a Team**: Transform individual contributors into a cohesive high-performing unit, ensuring that your team embodies a 'we' mentality that drives success.
Whether you are a first-time manager or an experienced leader seeking to enhance your skills, **Being the Boss** is packed with engaging stories and actionable insights, making it an invaluable resource for mastering leadership challenges.
**Condition**: Brand New
**ISBN**: 9781633696983
**Format**: Cloth over boards
**Year**: 2019
**Publisher**: Harvard Business Review Press
**Shipping Information**: Free shipping for this item; please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781633696983
Format: Cloth over boards
Year: 2019
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Description:
You never dreamed being the boss would be so hard. You're caught in a web of conflicting expectations from subordinates, your supervisor, peers, and customers.
You're not alone. As Harvard Business School's Linda Hill and manager and executive Kent Lineback reveal inBeing the Boss, becoming an effective manager is a painful, difficult journey. It's trial and error, endless effort, and slowly acquired personal insight. Many managers never complete the journey. Often, they just learn to get by. At worst, they become terrible bosses.
This essential book, now with a new preface, explains how to avoid that fate, by mastering three imperatives:
Manage yourself: Learn that management isn't about getting things done yourself. It's about accomplishing things through others.
Manage a network: Understand how power and influence work in your organization and build a network of mutually beneficial relationships to navigate your company's complex political environment.
Manage a team: Forge a high-performing "we" out of all the "I"s who report to you.
Packed with compelling stories and practical guidance,Being the Bossis an indispensable guide not only for first-time managers but all managers seeking to master the most daunting challenges of leadership.
Master the three crucial imperatives:
- **Manage Yourself**: Discover that effective management is not about doing everything yourself; it's about inspiring and empowering your team to accomplish tasks collectively.
- **Manage a Network**: Learn to leverage power dynamics at work by cultivating a network of supportive relationships, essential for navigating the intricate politics of your organization.
- **Manage a Team**: Transform individual contributors into a cohesive high-performing unit, ensuring that your team embodies a 'we' mentality that drives success.
Whether you are a first-time manager or an experienced leader seeking to enhance your skills, **Being the Boss** is packed with engaging stories and actionable insights, making it an invaluable resource for mastering leadership challenges.
**Condition**: Brand New
**ISBN**: 9781633696983
**Format**: Cloth over boards
**Year**: 2019
**Publisher**: Harvard Business Review Press
**Shipping Information**: Free shipping for this item; please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781633696983
Format: Cloth over boards
Year: 2019
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Description:
You never dreamed being the boss would be so hard. You're caught in a web of conflicting expectations from subordinates, your supervisor, peers, and customers.
You're not alone. As Harvard Business School's Linda Hill and manager and executive Kent Lineback reveal inBeing the Boss, becoming an effective manager is a painful, difficult journey. It's trial and error, endless effort, and slowly acquired personal insight. Many managers never complete the journey. Often, they just learn to get by. At worst, they become terrible bosses.
This essential book, now with a new preface, explains how to avoid that fate, by mastering three imperatives:
Manage yourself: Learn that management isn't about getting things done yourself. It's about accomplishing things through others.
Manage a network: Understand how power and influence work in your organization and build a network of mutually beneficial relationships to navigate your company's complex political environment.
Manage a team: Forge a high-performing "we" out of all the "I"s who report to you.
Packed with compelling stories and practical guidance,Being the Bossis an indispensable guide not only for first-time managers but all managers seeking to master the most daunting challenges of leadership.