WHY WE WROTE THIS BOOK
Linda Hill
This book is intended for managers who want to make a
difference—those who want to be great at working with and leading
others. For almost thirty years, I have been doing research on
what effective managers do and how they have learned to do it.
One thing is crystal clear: management is hard and is getting
harder.
As faculty chair of the Leadership Initiative at Harvard Business
School, I spend much of my time working with high potentials—
MBAs and executives from around the globe who want to contrib-
ute to their organizations and build fulfi lling careers. These are
well-intentioned, smart, accomplished individuals. There is noth-
ing that gives me more pleasure than watching those managers
who progress ...