Be the Boss Everyone Wants to Work For
A Guide for New Leaders
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Tom Dheere
About this listen
Becoming a manager is one of the most stressful and challenging transitions in any career. Why do half or more new managers quickly flame out? They're working from an old script for success. The Center for Creative Leadership Senior Research Scientist William Gentry shows them how to flip that script.
As an individual, your script is about "me". It calls for you to keep your head down, work hard, do everything you are told to do and more, and outshine and relentlessly outperform everyone. But when you become a manager, everything about your job needs to change - your skillset, the nature of your work relationships, your understanding of what "work" is, how you see yourself and your organization. You have to operate from a brand new script, one that's about "we" - ensuring collective success. But very few managers get any kind of training for this new role, and even fewer are given any clue as to just how fundamental and far-reaching this change is.
Filled with practical advice and lessons, and backed by extensive research by Gentry and others, this book lays out the art, science, and practice behind learning and leading as a first time manager. Through first-hand accounts, stories, and other examples drawn from the experiences of first-time managers - including Gentry's own story of recently become a first-time manager himself - the book's practical, actionable content helps readers flip the old script, and write and live their new script.
©2016 William Gentry (P)2016 William GentryWhat listeners say about Be the Boss Everyone Wants to Work For
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- Amazon Customer
- 21-02-2023
Great for new and existing leaders
There are several valuable tips and tricks in this book to advance our leadership. This book is not only for new leaders but will also help those moving up in their organisation or moving organisations.
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- Anonymous User
- 10-06-2021
obvious and tedious
Not many new insights from research are provided. Light, obvious content repeated over and over. Author recites ego inflating stories throughout. Tedious. Give it a miss. Brene Brown probably recommended this because she co wrote the first chapter.
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- Anonymous User
- 23-01-2019
Repetition repetition repetition.....& repetition
Almost half way through, admittedly, but I am struggling with this audio; the vocal delivery and equally the content. There is so much repetition it makes me wonder if the author ever paid for a professional editor or ever read it aloud to himself???? and if so, he should ask for his money back. He opens with a piece very reminiscent of Michael Gerbers recent E Myth Mastery audio and from there, much talk and repetition lacking in substantial information in between his 'talk' of all the research he has done. In my humble opinion, Michael Gerber and Brene Brown are the authorities on this topic. Above all, having information wrapped in a well-crafted narrative like Gerber and Brown do so well is FAR more effective in inspiring a reader /listener as opposed to being 'lectured' at.
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