Practical Ways to Manage Yourself: Modern Management Made Easy, Book 1

Johanna Rothman

Dec 2020 · Modern Management Made Easy Book 1 · Practical Ink

About this ebook

You can become an excellent manager when you manage yourself first.

If you’re like most managers, you’ve never seen management excellence. You are not alone.

Modern management requires we first manage ourselves—and that might be the most challenging part of management. Based on research and backed up by personal stories, you'll see how you can manage yourself.

Through questions, stories, and proven options, learn how you can:

Move from expert to coach.

Recognize and avoid micromanagement.

Support the people doing the work to solve more of their problems.

Make time to think so you can be your best self.

Trust the people you lead and serve.

And, much more.

With its question and myth, each chapter offers you options to rethink how you manage yourself.

Become a modern manager.

Learn to manage yourself so you and the people you lead and serve can deliver the results everyone needs.

Ratings and reviews

As a newer manager, there's so much eye-opening insight in this small little book. The way it's written has help for specific situations with examples that made me have several 'Aha!' moments while reading. It's format makes it perfect for whatever time you havefor professional development, be it 5 minutes, or a cover-to-cover read. Would highly recommend to any manager in the software field looking for insights into how to improve.

About the author

Johanna Rothman, known as the “Pragmatic Manager,” offers frank advice for your tough problems. She helps leaders and teams do reasonable things that work. Equipped with that knowledge, they can then decide how to adapt their product development.

With her trademark practicality and humor, Johanna is the author of 18 books about many aspects of product development. Find her Pragmatic Manager newsletter, articles, and blogs at jrothman.com and createadaptablelife.com.