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: How to Actually Manage People
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.
Difficult Situations: How to Handle Them
The hard stuff. Conflict, underperformance, difficult conversations, and high-stakes situations — how to handle what most people avoid and build credibility in the process.
From Managing to Leading: How to Build and Grow a Strong Team
The scale. Hiring the right people, developing careers, and growing your impact beyond a single team — the shift from managing to leading.