Welcome to Management

How to Grow from Top Performer to Excellent Leader

By: Ryan Hawk, General Stanley McChrystal - foreword

Narrated by: Ryan Hawk

“The ultimate all-in-one guide to becoming a great leader.” (Daniel Pink)

From the creator and host of The Learning Leader Show, “the most dynamic leadership podcast out there” (Forbes) that will “help you lead smarter” (Inc.), comes an essential tactical guide for newly promoted managers.

Every year, millions of top performers are promoted to management-level jobs - only to discover that the tactics that got them promoted are not the tactics that will make them effective in their new role. In Welcome to Management, Ryan Hawk provides practical, actionable advice and tools designed to ensure that transition is a successful one.

He presents a new actionable three-part framework distilled from best practices drawn from in-depth interviews with over 300 of the most forward-thinking leaders around the world, as well as his own professional experience going from exceptional individual producer to new leader. Learn how to:

Lead yourself: Build skills and earn credibility. Compliance can be commanded, but commitment cannot. People reserve their full capacity for emotional commitment for leaders they find credible, and credibility must be earned.

Build your team: Develop a healthy and sustainable culture of mutual trust and respect that creates cohesion. This includes effective hiring and firing practices.

Lead your team: Set a clear strategy and vision for your team, communicate effectively, and ultimately drive the results the organization is counting on your team to deliver.

Through case studies, hundreds of interviews, and personal stories, the book will help high performers make the leap from individual contributor to manager with greater ease, grace, courage, and effectiveness. Welcome to management!

©2020 Ryan Hawk (P)2020 McGraw Hill-Ascent Audio

So much information and help

I picked up this book as a part of my preparation for applying for a managent job. The fundamentals in this book were laid out extremely well. I picked up so many tidbits of information along the way. If I get the job, I'll be picking up a hard copy to help me along the way.

Excellent

Highly recommend book for anyone starting in a management position. Wether this is you first time in management or not.

Excellent

Simply excellent. This is a book that I also picked up because I was moved from a team member to a supervising position. I needed all the help I could get. I wish I had read this before I got moved up. I have since purchased several copies and given them to both family members and friends, who are in a position to move up or who should just know this information For the rest of their lives. This was the best book that I have taken on management so far.

Give it a listen.

One of the better management/leadership books I have listened to or read. I had to bookmark quite a few spots to go back and take notes on. Might be better to read if you have the time.

not sure what I expected

mostly him selling you his podcast and listing his resume in-between buzz words. I got almost nothing from this book. maybe you will 🤔

Not for me

If you like sports analogies then this book is for you. Not helpful for a first-time manager who has zero interest in detailed sports or military references.

Men-oriented, old school approach

First, this is not a practical skills book for first-time managers, It's just another leadership book. I took away some useful information toward the end. And what I took away was good. However, the book focuses on the requirements for success in the military, football ans sales. These approaches don't translate for me as a woman or to how I view successful leadership. The first chapter was insulting because success does not come from physical fitness. We had presidents who are proof of that. This book may appeal to many, but the old-school, sales oriented approach to leadership is not what I see for the future. As a woman, I don't believe I'm the target audience.

Too much name dropping and too many sports stories

The book is mainly a series of quotes from people that the author has interviewed on his podcast. Interspersed with that are several stories about sports, especially personal stories from the author about how good he was at playing football.

Very little in depth analysis. Also, didn't really seem to be geared to middle management, which is what your typical first time manager would be.