Summary of Julie Zhuo's The Making of a Manager

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I was hired to be the manager of the Facebook team in May of 2006. I had very little experience, but I was eager to make my mark on the world. I had no institutionalized doctrines or tragic failures to speak of.
#2 The answers to the question, What is the job of a manager. are an assortment of activities. If I asked you, What is the job of a soccer player. you would say that it’s to attend practices, pass the ball to their teammates, and attempt to score goals.
#3 The definition of management 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.
#4 A great manager’s team will consistently achieve great outcomes. If the outcome you care about is building a thriving lemonade business, then a great manager’s team will turn a higher profit than a mediocre manager’s team.

Sujets

• Leadership

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 24 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669359067
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Julie Zhuo's The Making of a Manager
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#1

I was hired to be the manager of the Facebook team in May of 2006. I had very little experience, but I was eager to make my mark on the world. I had no institutionalized doctrines or tragic failures to speak of.

#2

The answers to the question, What is the job of a manager. are an assortment of activities. If I asked you, What is the job of a soccer player. you would say that it’s to attend practices, pass the ball to their teammates, and attempt to score goals.

#3

The definition of management 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.

#4

A great manager’s team will consistently achieve great outcomes. If the outcome you care about is building a thriving lemonade business, then a great manager’s team will turn a higher profit than a mediocre manager’s team.

#5

The first part of your job as a manager is to make sure your team knows what success looks like and cares about achieving it. This requires understanding and believing in your team’s purpose, and then sharing it with them at every opportunity.

#6

The last bucket is process, which describes how your team works together. You must develop trusting relationships with your employees, understand their strengths and weaknesses, make good decisions about who should do what, and coach them to do their best.

#7

When you are a manager, your role is not to do the work yourself, even if you are the best at it. Your role is to improve the purpose, people, and process of your team to get as high a multiplier effect on your collective outcome as possible.

#8

When you are in survival mode, you do what it takes to survive. When you’re beyond survival in your team’s hierarchy of needs, you can plan for the future and think about what you can do today that will help you achieve more in the months and years ahead.

#9

The art of management is the art of getting a group of people to work together to achieve better outcomes. You must enjoy the day-to-day aspects of management, and want to do it.

#10

adaptability is a key trait of great managers. As your team changes, what you do every day will change. If you're committed to your purpose, you will probably enjoy the variation that comes with the job.

#11

As a manager, you will spend a lot of time with other people. You must ensure that the individuals you support are able to thrive, which means listening to and talking with them. If you find the day-to-day of management challenging, it may not be a good fit for you.

#12

Management is about people, and each person brings their own unique experiences, motivations, hopes, fears, and quirks to the table. managers face their fair share of difficult conversations.

#13

The path to becoming a manager is often seen as a promotion, which invokes images of a golden future. However, many organizations today have paths for advancement that do not require managing others.

#14

The best outcomes come from inspiring people to action, not telling them what to do. Managers do get to make a number of calls, but those decisions must be in the interest of the team otherwise they will lose trust and be rendered ineffective.

#15

If you’re not sure that management is the right path for you, there are things you can do to get a better feel for it. For example, you can mentoring other team members, taking on an intern, or interviewing managers who have recently transitioned to understand what their experiences were like.

#16

The distinction between manager and leader is important. While the role of a manager can be given to someone, leadership is not something that can be bestowed. It must be earned. People must want to follow you.