Practical playbooks for your first years in management.
Deep-dive guides with real frameworks, scripts, and templates you can use immediately. Each playbook covers one critical stage of your leadership journey. Not theory. A system.
IC to Manager Transition: Your First 90 Days
The foundation. Before you can run a management system, you need to make the transition itself — understand what changed, know your team, redefine your role, and build trust. This playbook walks you through it in 90 days.
- The identity shift from IC to people leader — what actually changes and what to stop doing
- Team mapping framework to understand strengths, motivations, and capacity
- 80/20 time audit and a Stop Doing list to transition IC work off your plate
- Trust-building foundations and a week-by-week 90-day plan
The Management Cycle
The engine. Once you've built the foundation, this is the repeating system that drives everything — setting direction, delegating ownership, giving feedback, and adjusting based on results.
Managing Through Complexity
The hard stuff. Conflict, underperformance, difficult conversations, and high-stakes situations — how to handle what most people avoid and build credibility in the process.
Building and Growing Your Team
The scale. Hiring the right people, developing careers, and growing your impact beyond a single team — the shift from managing to leading.