Manager 3.0

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LEADING WHEN THINGS GET STICKY

’’May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.”

—Edward Abbey

There will be ups and downs, curveballs and fastballs, hurdles and pits, storms and sunny days. As a manager, you will have every analogy hurled at you. A theme that you have heard echoed throughout this book is that it won’t be easy to lead and inspire a team. Sometimes, decisions and routes will be crystal clear, but more often, the situations that you encounter and the circumstances that you face will float around in the murky gray of uncertainty. Every ...