From 10 to 50 people
Going from doing the work to leading the people who do it: becoming a manager, running a team, and keeping speed as you scale.
5 books, in order
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A field guide for the suddenly-in-charge new manager.
Drawing on her own path from new manager to design VP at Facebook, Zhuo writes an honest, practical guide to the early years of managing people. She covers the real...
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A manager's output is the output of their whole organization.
Andy Grove distills the management principles he used to run Intel into a practical operating manual for managers at any level. He frames management around leverage:...
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Care personally and challenge directly to lead better.
Scott argues that great management comes from Radical Candor: caring personally about people while challenging them directly. She contrasts it with the failure modes...
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Five interlocking dysfunctions that quietly sink any team.
Told as a business fable about a struggling tech company's new CEO, the book lays out a pyramid of five dysfunctions: absence of trust, fear of conflict, lack of...
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Prioritize speed over efficiency to win winner-take-all markets.
Hoffman and Yeh define blitzscaling as a set of techniques for igniting and managing breakneck growth, deliberately accepting inefficiency and risk to capture a market...