You're the Leader Now: What Nobody Tells You About Leading People for First Time

You got promoted because you were good at your job. Then your job became leading everyone else.You're the Leader Now is a practical, plainspoken guide to the first year of leadership-the period when the title is new, expectations are unclear, and every difficult conversation suddenly carries more weight.Learn how to lead former peers, delegate without taking the work back, set expectations people can actually follow, address performance problems early, manage conflict, coach instead of rescue, manage up, protect team capacity, make decisions under pressure, and develop people who can solve problems without waiting for you.This expanded edition combines practical guidance with realistic workplace scenarios, longer case studies, conversation scripts, a first-year leadership roadmap, a 30-day deliberate-practice journal, field-manual tools, reflection exercises, and questions designed to help new managers build judgment-not just memorize management advice.For the newly promoted manager wondering, "Now what?"-start here.