Reading paths · Five steps

Managing people for the first time

The job is not a promotion from the last one; it is a different job. These are in the order the mistakes happen.

1. 01 The Five Dysfunctions of a TeamPatrick Lencioni

   The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

   Patrick Lencioni

   Reflective · Accessible · 4 min read

   What goes wrong, told as a story, which is the only way most people recognise it in their own team.

2. 02 Radical CandorKim Malone Scott

   Radical Candor

   Kim Malone Scott

   Practical · Accessible · 4 min read

   The conversation you are currently avoiding, and why avoiding it is the expensive option.

3. 03 Turn the Ship Around!L. David Marquet

   Turn the Ship Around!

   L. David Marquet

   Practical · Accessible · 3 min read

   The shift from deciding well to making decisions elsewhere, which is the actual transition.

4. 04 MultipliersLiz Wiseman

   Multipliers

   Liz Wiseman

   Practical · Core · 3 min read

   What your presence does to other people's thinking — the effect new managers least expect to have.

5. 05 The Culture CodeDaniel Coyle

   The Culture Code

   Daniel Coyle

   Practical · Accessible · 4 min read

   Last, because it is about the group rather than about you, and it only lands once the first four have.

A path is an order, not a syllabus. Every step says why it sits where it does, so you can disagree with the sequence on the evidence rather than on faith.