Your First 90 Days as a Leader
Go from individual contributor to confident team leader, fast.
Built for first-time managers and career switchers who are stepping into leadership. This path gives you a basic toolkit: understanding your own influence, running better meetings, giving feedback and earning your team's trust.
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Your reading order
8 books- 1
Start here: Maxwell's 5 Levels framework shows you where you stand as a new leader and maps the road ahead, from the authority of your title to real influence.
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Now that you have a map, get practical. Pollak wrote this guide for first-time managers who lead digital-native teams and face the expectations of today's workplace.
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Pollak tells you what to do; Pacheco shows you how to handle the messy human side of it. This book covers the emotional and relationship problems no one warns new managers about.
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Once you manage people, you need to understand what really motivates them. Pink's research on autonomy, mastery and purpose will change how you design work for your team.
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With motivation theory in hand, this book gives you the six essential practices every manager needs. It helps you shift from being the top performer to making your whole team better.
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Every new manager dreads giving feedback. Chandler presents it as a gift and offers a practical system that makes performance conversations less painful and more productive.
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You'll spend a third of your leadership life in meetings. Lencioni uses a short business story to show you how to stop dreading them and use them as your most powerful leadership tool.
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To close out your foundation, Brown's landmark book teaches that great leadership is not about having all the answers. It is about the courage to be honest, vulnerable and real with your team.
