48 chapters. 144 ready-to-use templates inside the book. 150,000+ managers trained. 20+ years buildingteams. This system works.
Here's the uncomfortable truth about becoming a manager: nobody trained you. You were the best engineer,the best seller, the best analyst - so they handed you people and walked away.
Now you guess. You guess how to hire, how to give feedback, how to set pay you can defend, why your bestperson just quit. Every week you firefight problems a system would have prevented - and you lose goodpeople to the manager down the hall who simply had a plan.
Manage on instinct, and the same problems come back bigger every quarter while your strongest peoplequietly update their market value.
Manage by system, and your team hires well, stays, and ships - without you in every meeting.
This book hands you the exact system I've taught to 150,000+ managers over 20 years - the same one I usedbuilding and leading HR at Wargaming, Preply, and beyond.
Here's what you'll learn:
- The A-Player Scorecard - hire the right person, not the available one
- The Competency Interview - read a candidate in one structured conversation
- The Tuckman Map - take a group of strangers to a real team
- The Feedback Formula - say the hard thing without the blowup
- The Pay-Band Builder - answer "why does she earn more?" without flinching
- The Motivation Audit - find what actually keeps each person
- The Delegation Ladder - get out of the bottleneck
- The 1-on-1 System - turn your weekly meeting into your best management tool
- The Remote Operating Manual - lead a team you cannot see
144 ready-to-use templates - all inside the book: scorecards, onboarding plans, interview guides, pay bands,bonus designers, stay-interview scripts, feedback scripts, the 9-box talent grid, succession maps, OKRbuilders, 1-on-1 agendas, the GROW coaching model, delegation matrices, conflict-resolution scripts, remoteworking agreements, and more.
No email walls. No resource pages. No broken download links. Every template is on the page.
Most manager books cover one slice - feedback, or hiring, or meetings - for $15 to $25 each. A singlemanagement course runs $1,000 or more. A coach charges $300 an hour. This book is the whole system forless than the price of lunch.
Every framework tested across real teams at companies like Wargaming, Preply, and iDeals. Every templaterefined through years of cohorts and 150,000+ students.
Stop winging it. Start leading with a system - today.
