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Congratulations, you're a manager now. The conventional wisdom says your job is to forge your team into a productive unit, enforce your will, and beat every metric in sight.
That's bullshit.
You're a human coordinating the work of other humans. That's the job. The trouble is that most of what you've been taught about doing it traces back to a nineteenth-century efficiency expert who thought people were basically interchangeable machines, followed by a hundred years of management thinking that polished his logic instead of questioning it.
Modern Management starts with the history business programs leave out, then gets practical: the jump from peer to boss, how you actually come across versus how you think you do, structure without power trips, hiring and inheriting teams, feedback that lands while it still matters, metrics worth tracking, remote teams, managing the people above you, and staying in the work without burning out or going numb.
It won't fix capitalism. It will keep you from turning into the manager you always hated, and make you the one your team actually wants to work for.
That's bullshit.
You're a human coordinating the work of other humans. That's the job. The trouble is that most of what you've been taught about doing it traces back to a nineteenth-century efficiency expert who thought people were basically interchangeable machines, followed by a hundred years of management thinking that polished his logic instead of questioning it.
Modern Management starts with the history business programs leave out, then gets practical: the jump from peer to boss, how you actually come across versus how you think you do, structure without power trips, hiring and inheriting teams, feedback that lands while it still matters, metrics worth tracking, remote teams, managing the people above you, and staying in the work without burning out or going numb.
It won't fix capitalism. It will keep you from turning into the manager you always hated, and make you the one your team actually wants to work for.