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

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Learning What It

Means to Be

a Manager

To tell the story of the new managers’ experiences properly, we

must start where they started, by asking what it means to be a

manager and what a manager does. In this part of the book we

consider how the new managers came to understand that the man-

agerial role was distinct from the individual contributor role and

how they began to embrace it.

The new managers learned through experience what it

meant to be a manager—first, from their prior experience as in-

dividual contributors (observing their managers at work) and

then, from their interactions with others while performing the

functions and activities of management. ...