From the course: Coaching New Managers
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Think differently: Three aspects of the manager's mindset
From the course: Coaching New Managers
Think differently: Three aspects of the manager's mindset
- Raise your hand if you sold lemonade or any other homemade goods as a kid as an early foray into business. In her book, "The Making of a Manager," author Julie Zhuo takes us back to the childhood lemonade stand to better understand how to teach new managers to transition toward working on their team, not just in their team. Share Zhuo's analogy with your new manager. That as the founder of a lemonade business, you might be the best at mixing drinks, or at least think you are, even as you hire helpers to run the stand. But if you only ever make lemonade, you'll only be serving an additive role in your business. Instead, if you hire a small team and teach them how to make the lemonade, even if they're not quite as skilled at first, you'll be serving a multiplicative role. Teaching new managers how to serve as multipliers means exponential returns are possible, including exponentially reducing their time spent managing.…
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