The Making Of A Manager – An Insightful Read into people who are starting their journey as a leader

Julie Zhou’s The Making Of A Manager does one thing and excels at driving home the point, that being a manager is more than assigning tasks to your team members and making sure that they adhere to the set deadlines.

It is instead someone who has the responsibility that both the collective and individual goals are achieved. It is someone who understands the bigger picture and at times can also take the harder decisions. Being a manager also involves being straight in your feedback and it also involves a learning curve where you first have to manage yourself.

The decisions taken by a manager in how he handles the growth of his team or which persons he brings into the team will dictate the direction that the team takes. A good manager will take a mediocre team and with the team make it into an outstanding one whereas a bad manager or someone in the wrong place at the wrong time will take a high-performing team and make it into a mediocre one.

All the lessons in the book like balancing between not being a micro manager and being too distant from the team are nothing new and things we already know, the beauty of the book is in how it lays emphasis on these points and shines further clarity on them with some personal anecdotes.

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