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    Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader
    Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader
    Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader
    Audiobook8 hours

    Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader

    Written by Linda A. Hill and Kent Lineback

    Narrated by Erik Synnestvedt

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    About this audiobook

    Are you the boss you need to be?

    You never dreamed being the boss would be so hard. You're caught in a web of conflicting expectations from your subordinates, from those above you, and from your peers and customers.

    You're not alone. As Harvard Business School's Linda Hill and manager and executive Kent Lineback reveal in Being the Boss, becoming an effective manager is a painful, difficult journey. It requires trial and error, endless effort, and slowly acquired personal insight. Many managers never complete the journey and instead just learn how 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 doing all the work on your own. It's about leading others to accomplish things with you as their guide.

    - Manage your 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 your team: Create a high-performing "we" out of all the "I's" who report to you.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAscent Audio
    Release dateAug 16, 2011
    ISBN9781596599529
    Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader

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    • 3/5
      Nice to have advices, however, not fully discovering options or providing a clear "why"
    • 5/5
      Some practical advice about the softer side of being a manager.Identifies the many paradoxes associated with managing people and rather than explain them away talks about how to live with them.Includes self assessment questions after each section. They should be good for working on with a coach, or putting into a 360.
    • 4/5
      Hill's previous book, [Becoming a Manager], focused on the challenges of a first managerial role. In this book, she and Kent Lineback provide guidance for managers who are looking to take their leadership capabilities to the next level. For those who have been in managerial roles for a few years, development often takes a back seat to day-to-day operational responsibilities. However, Hill and Lineback suggest that all managers can become more effective by managing themselves, their relationships, and their teams. Although the book is organized around these three imperatives, Hill and Lineback do not take a cookbook approach to leadership development. Instead they admit that leading is often difficult, requiring the balancing of seemingly opposite approaches. The advice that the provide helps managers navigate this balancing act. This is one of the best management books that I've read this year. In addition to recognizing the challenges that managers face, Hill and Lineback also provide useful self-assessment tools throughout the book. An ongoing example helps to illustrate their points. Although readers of the management literature won't find much brand new in this book, it is organized in a way that should prove useful to practicing managers.