
The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You

And yet, working together in teams is how the world moves forward. We can create things far grander and more ambitious than anything we could have done alone. This is how battles are won, how innovation moves forward, how organizations succeed. This is how any remarkable achievement happens.
Julie Zhuo • The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
support members in reaching their career goals, and create processes to get work done smoothly and efficiently.
Julie Zhuo • The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
To manage people well, you must develop trusting relationships with them, understand their strengths and weaknesses (as well as your own), make good decisions about who should do what (including hiring and firing when necessary), and coach individuals to do their best.
Julie Zhuo • The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
Do I Like Talking with People?
Julie Zhuo • The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
The next important bucket that managers think about is people, otherwise known as the who. Are the members of your team set up to succeed? Do they have the right skills? Are they motivated to do great work?
Julie Zhuo • The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
This is the crux of management: It is the belief that a team of people can achieve more than a single person going it alone. It is the realization that you don’t have to do everything yourself, be the best at everything yourself, or even know how to do everything yourself. Your job, as a manager, is to get better outcomes from a group of people
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This is the crux of management: It is the belief that a team of people can achieve more than a single person going it alone. It is the realization that you don’t have to do everything yourself, be the best at everything yourself, or even know how to do everything yourself. Your job, as a manager, is to get better outcomes from a group of people
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If you can pinpoint a problem and motivate others to work with you to solve it, then you’re leading.
Julie Zhuo • The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
a group of people to work together to achieve better outcomes.