Your role as a manager is not to do the work yourself, even if you are the best at it, because that will only take you so far. Without a clear understanding of how success looks, it’s likely a team will do work that’s not important. It’s not uncommon for teams not to know or understand what success looks like. The first big part of your job as a manager is to ensure that your team knows what success looks like and cares about achieving it. Your job, as a manager, is to get better outcomes from a group of people working together.Ī great quote explaining any manager’s job. I want to share some of my favorite parts/quotes from the The Making of a Manager book. Seeing how the Julie dealt with various challenges and grew to be VP of Design at Facebook, is a great learning experience. This kind of connection makes this an excellent book that I highly encourage to read. Reading the book I said many times “oh yes, that’s how I felt” and “oh, and I was in exact the same situation”. I liked that Julie wasn’t afraid to share that she was scared many times, that she wasn’t sure if she made the right decision and that’s it’s OK (and actually beneficial as that’s how we grow) to make mistakes because we are all humans. What I loved about Julie’s book is that it’s full of very practical advice and tips. Many management books out there give you a lot of theoretical advice on how to be a manager or just advice that’s not applicable to real world.

The making of a manager book review