The Wall Street Journal Essential Guide to Management by Alan Murray Summary
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Alan Murray's WSJ guide distills leadership wisdom from the world's top minds. Called "a beautifully constructed guide" by Publishers Weekly, it transformed management education by emphasizing leadership over control. What management secret do veteran executives wish they'd learned decades earlier?
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When Everyone Becomes a Manager Overnight
Here's a sobering reality: every single day, hundreds of people wake up as technical experts and go to sleep as managers-with zero training in between. One day you're the best engineer, analyst, or salesperson on the team. The next, you're responsible for a dozen people who expect you to know what you're doing. This jarring transition explains why so many organizations stumble, why talented individual contributors become mediocre managers, and why leadership feels like a mystery wrapped in corporate jargon. What we need isn't another management fad or motivational platitude. We need timeless principles that actually work when the conference room door closes and real decisions must be made. Management didn't always look like this. Picture Frederick Taylor in 1911, clipboard in hand, timing factory workers with a stopwatch, treating humans like machines that needed optimization. His "Scientific Management" worked brilliantly-for making widgets. Then came the knowledge economy, and everything broke. You can't measure creativity with a stopwatch. You can't force innovation through oversight. You can't control ideas the way you control assembly lines. Peter Drucker saw this shift after World War II and fundamentally redefined what managers actually do. Knowledge workers-people whose contributions live in their minds rather than their hands-need something different. They need objectives, not just orders. They need motivation, not just monitoring. They need development, not just direction. This led to a revolutionary insight: management without leadership creates stagnant organizations, but leadership without chaos.
The Paradox of Leading and Managing
What Actually Motivates People and How to Build Great Teams
Creating Strategy That Actually Guides Decisions
The Discipline of Execution and Culture of Action
Leading Through Relentless Change
Your Career in a World That Won't Stop Changing
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