Becoming a Manager

by Hill, Linda

• ISBN13: 9781591391821
• ISBN10: 1591391822
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-01
• Publisher: Harvard Business School Pr

Summary

Second Edition, Expanded to Include Fresh Insights and Practical Tools For New and Experienced Managers No book has captured the trials and traumas of the transition from star performer to competent manager better than Linda Hill's classic Becoming a Manager. In tracing and analyzing the experiences of nineteen new managers, Hill reveals the profound complexity and difficulty of the process of developing into a manager. In their own distinct voices, these managers describe how they reframed their understanding of their roles and responsibilities and how they coped with the stresses and emotions of the transformation-in essence, how they were able to take on new identities. Now, in a substantially expanded second edition, the author offers concrete advice on the crucial issues of dealing effectively with organizational politics and developing and leading diverse teams in times of change, as well as on how managers can prepare themselves to lead over the course of their careers. In a new epilogue, she explores what organizations can do to help managers in their journey to lead and learn.

Author Biography

Linda A. Hill is the Wallace Brett Bonham Professor of Business Administration and faculty chair of the Leadership Initiative at Harvard Business School.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition	ix
Preface	xvii
Introduction	1	(8)
I Learning What It Means to Be a Manager	9	(78)
1 Setting the Stage	13	(34)
2 Reconciling Expectations	47	(24)
3 Moving Toward a Managerial Identity	71	(16)
II Developing Interpersonal Judgment	87	(60)
4 Exercising Authority	91	(24)
5 Managing Subordinates' Performance	115	(32)
III Confronting the Personal Side of Management	147	(46)
6 Gaining Self-Knowledge	149	(26)
7 Coping with the Stresses and Emotions	175	(18)
IV Managing the Transformation	193	(68)
8 Critical Resources for the First Year	195	(34)
9 Easing the Transformation	229	(32)
V Dispelling the Myths of Management	261	(58)
10 Exercising Influence Without Formal Authority	271	(12)
11 Building an Effective Team	283	(20)
12 Learning for a Lifetime	303	(16)
Epilogue: Creating a Culture of Leadership and Learning	319	(18)
Appendix	337	(20)
Notes	357	(30)
Selected Bibliography	387	(24)
Index	411	(8)
About the Author	419