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Book Description

So you’re a manager, or at least you want to be, and you’re looking for a good roadmap to help you prepare. If you want to be the kind of manager people really admire, this ebook is a good place to start. Instead of tactics and solutions, author Robert Hoekman, Jr. provides you with a belief system—an approach to solutions that you can use all the time, every time, with confidence.

Along with observations from many of the best minds in leadership, Hoekman shares approaches that helped him become successful in management roles. You’ll learn about essential practices that will make team members want to follow your lead, such as being collaborative, giving credit away, managing distraction, and creating opportunities for others.

  • Be the same person as manager that you were when you aspired to become one—the hungry kind
  • Instead of managing your people, clear a path to help them do great work
  • Communicate well and frequently: listen, ask questions, clarify, restate, absorb, and contribute
  • Understand how today’s actions map to tomorrow’s outcomes
  • Work with people to establish and communicate direction, and support everyone’s efforts to get there

Table of Contents

  1. 1. Introduction
    1. A Note About How I Learned
  2. 2. The Daily Practices of Leadership
    1. Being Collaborative
    2. Steady As You Go
    3. Eyes On the Road
    4. Speaking Up
    5. Institutionalized
    6. Snap Out of It
    7. Taking Criticism
    8. Giving Credit Away
    9. Managing Things Away from People
    10. Creating Opportunities for Others
  3. 3. Learning as a Habit
    1. Leaving Your Ego Out of It
    2. Learning to Succeed, Not to Embrace Failure
    3. Repeated Failure Gets You Nowhere
  4. 4. Skill Equals Perspective
    1. Upside of Overlap
    2. Be Replaceable
    3. T-Shaped People
  5. 5. The What Over the How
    1. Tools, Not Processes
    2. Improvising
    3. Public Perception
  6. 6. Saying It with Purpose
    1. Framework for Thinking
    2. On Writing Well
    3. Enabling Comprehension
    4. Mapping Your Message to Their Concerns
  7. 7. Becoming Convincing
    1. Listening
    2. Asking
    3. Restating
    4. Educating
    5. Presenting
      1. Holding the Questions
      2. Backing It Up
      3. Do What You Can
  8. 8. Being Unreasonable
    1. The Advantage of High Standards
      1. High Standards Lead to Prowess
      2. High Standards Make You More Persuasive
      3. High Standards Lead to People
  9. 9. The Philosophy It All Adds Up To
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