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Your Boss Era: Become the Manager Everyone Wants to Work for
'Radical wisdom to unlock leadership success' - Kim Scott, author of Radical Candor
'I read it from top to bottom, the kind of real-world advice we all need. It's the advice I wish I'd had' - Chris Donnelly
This book is the book you wish your terrible former manager had a manual and silent mentor to help managers navigate the trickiest of days in their role and allow team members to do their best work. From Gen X to Gen Alpha and everyone else in between.
From the first to the 500th time you have to hire or fire someone, understanding how on earth that ‘performance management’ thing works (properly), and if appraisals are crap, what do we do instead? – this book is the bible to follow to nail managing people.
Allying the soft skills needed to have the right mindset, to the hard skills that underpin unshakeable systems, leadership trainer and content creator Heather Elkington lays down the 16 rules to follow if you want to lead a high-performing team that gets you noticed for all the right reasons.
'I read it from top to bottom, the kind of real-world advice we all need. It's the advice I wish I'd had' - Chris Donnelly
This book is the book you wish your terrible former manager had a manual and silent mentor to help managers navigate the trickiest of days in their role and allow team members to do their best work. From Gen X to Gen Alpha and everyone else in between.
From the first to the 500th time you have to hire or fire someone, understanding how on earth that ‘performance management’ thing works (properly), and if appraisals are crap, what do we do instead? – this book is the bible to follow to nail managing people.
Allying the soft skills needed to have the right mindset, to the hard skills that underpin unshakeable systems, leadership trainer and content creator Heather Elkington lays down the 16 rules to follow if you want to lead a high-performing team that gets you noticed for all the right reasons.
286 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 17, 2025
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September 18, 2025
Honestly I wasn’t sure what to expect with this book but I follow the author on social media and her videos have good tips and insights so when she released her book I thought it would be worth it to pick up. And it was!
The author does a really fantastic job of breaking down the roles and responsibilities of a manager into digestible, relatable and concise information with actionable tasks that you can apply to your work immediately. If you’ve read other management books there might be some overlap with information you already know but what’s interesting about this one is that she makes everything seem very clear. There is data backing up her tips as well as her own lived experience as a woman in corporate management. And yes, the fact that the author is a woman is a key factor in how this book was written and reads to others. The old school boys club way of thinking and leading in business isn’t always the move. This was refreshing and I highlighted a TON that I am going to take into my career moving forward.
The author does a really fantastic job of breaking down the roles and responsibilities of a manager into digestible, relatable and concise information with actionable tasks that you can apply to your work immediately. If you’ve read other management books there might be some overlap with information you already know but what’s interesting about this one is that she makes everything seem very clear. There is data backing up her tips as well as her own lived experience as a woman in corporate management. And yes, the fact that the author is a woman is a key factor in how this book was written and reads to others. The old school boys club way of thinking and leading in business isn’t always the move. This was refreshing and I highlighted a TON that I am going to take into my career moving forward.
August 31, 2025
Good read, with some tangible insights and actions
October 10, 2025
I really enjoyed this, some great tips!
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