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The First-Time Manager's Road to Leadership

Mastering Delegation When Your Team Includes Former Peers, Friends, and Even Former Bosses

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The First-Time Manager's Road to Leadership

By: Grant Holloway
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Nobody warns you about the hardest part of managing people. It's the exact moment a former peer, a former friend, or even a former boss ends up reporting to you, and every instinct you've built over years of being liked stops working the way it used to.

This book follows three managers living through that exact collision. Elena, whose entire ninety-day trial depends on a friendship she has to rebuild as a working relationship instead of destroy for good. Marcus, whose fear of becoming his own bad first boss quietly turns him into a different kind of bad boss instead. Priya, who spends eleven months avoiding one hard conversation before it costs her the trust of an entire team.

Through their real, high-stakes decisions, you'll learn how to delegate without losing control of the outcome, how to give feedback that actually lands instead of getting softened into nothing, and how to build authority that has nothing to do with volume and everything to do with consistency.

By the end, you won't just manage the people who used to be your equals. You'll have earned the kind of trust a title alone never buys you.
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