Be a Great Boss: The Hill Collection (4 Items)

ple issues” continue to grow more complex and demanding. How

can managers prepare themselves to take on increased manage-

rial responsibility?

WHY A SECOND EDITION?

While it is gratifying to see that the central themes developed in

Becoming a Manager have stood the test of time, I have deepened

and refined my sense for what new managers need to know and

how they can learn it. I did not offer much explicit advice in the

first edition about how to handle the day-to-day challenges of

management; instead I encouraged readers to learn vicariously

from the documented experiences of the nineteen new managers.

In this edition, I have tried to address the operational ...