Becoming a Manager
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Harvard Business School professor and leadership guru Linda Hill illuminates what it takes to make the most crucial transition in your career – going from individual performer to competent manager.
- A powerful framework and argument for understanding the transition from individual performer to manager.
- Real-life stories and voices of managers as they make the transition.
- Substantial research and analytical insights on myriad aspects of leadership and management.
- Concrete advice on dealing effectively with organizational politics, developing and leading teams, evolving your leadership over the course of your career.
Audience: Broad audience of new and mid-level managers, as well as individual performers aspiring to or preparing for a management role--across industries and sectors.
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Linda A. Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, the faculty chair of the Leadership Initiative, and coauthor of Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader (with Kent Lineback) as well as Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation (with Greg Brandeau, Emily Truelove, and Kent Lineback).
Author social media/website info: hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=6479; linkedin.com/in/linda-hill-52a661
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