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Practical Ways to Manage Yourself: Modern Management Made Easy, Book 1

Johanna Rothman

You can become an excellent manager when you manage yourself first.


If you're like most managers, you've never seen management excellence. You are not alone.


Modern management requires we first manage ourselves-and that might be the most challenging part of management. Based on research and backed up by personal stories, you'll see how you can manage yourself.


Through questions, stories, and proven options, learn how you can:


  • Move from expert to coach.
  • Recognize and avoid micromanagement.
  • Support the people doing the work to solve more of their problems.
  • Make time to think so you can be your best self.
  • Trust the people you lead and serve.
  • And, much more.


With its question and myth, each chapter offers you options to rethink how you manage yourself.


Become a modern manager.


Learn to manage yourself so you and the people you lead and serve can deliver the results everyone needs.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Practical Ink
  • Publish Date: Dec 24th, 2020
  • Pages: 186
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.50in - 0.92lb
  • EAN: 9781943487141
  • Categories: Management - GeneralLeadershipProject Management

About the Author

Rothman, Johanna: - Bio for back of Book Johanna Rothman, known as the "Pragmatic Manager," offers frank advice for your tough problems. She helps leaders and teams do reasonable things that work. Equipped with that knowledge, they can then decide how to adapt their product development. With her trademark practicality and humor, Johanna is the author of 18 books about many aspects of product development. Find her Pragmatic Manager newsletter, articles, and blogs at jrothman.com and createadaptablelife.com.

Praise for this book

"If you've ever wondered about management and why things are the way they are, read these books. Johanna offers questions---questions I hear every day---and then possibilities for improvement. Her personal and client stories challenged my thinking, for the better. Even if you only read the sections about managing performance, these books will help you select actions that create engagement and better performance in your organization." --- John Cutler, Head Customer Education, Amplitude


"This book series is the furthest thing from your run-of-the-mill boring management books. Johanna Rothman busts dozens of management myths in an easy to read set of essays that are useful in part or as a whole. The stories and anecdotes told are relatable, practical, and fit for today's modern workplace. Regardless of your management experience, there's valuable lessons to be found on every single page." ---Ryan Dorrell, Co-Founder, AgileThought


"If you are starting a new management role, or simply want a reminder of what it is all about, then these books provide a body of practical wisdom in an easily digestible form. They place the role of the manager in a wider context rather that implying some context free set of qualities and manage to avoid the platitudes all too common in books of this kind." --- Dave Snowden, Chief Scientific Officer, Cognitive Edge