Your First 90 Days Managing People: A New Manager's Guide to Impactful Leadership

So insightful! This book was pretty spot on on what I need to know to better help my team at work. I really appreciate how easy the read was too. Pretty quick reference guide.I particularly enjoyed Chapters 4 and 8 in what my team has needed in my management. Highly recommend!

Just got done with this book. It does contain some good basic principles and provides some good insight and a head start before experiencing real time scenarios in managing people. Definitely found insightful and with some good content for first time managers or even someone who just wants to learn and brush up on people management.

Your First 90 Days of Managing People is an excellent, easy, straight to the point, spot-on book designed to help guide new managers. This book if filled with great information on the qualities to have (and those to avoid!) to be a truly successful manager, not only from the view of those above you, but also from those that you are managing. Given that the success of your team, and happiness of your employees overall will be the true defining measurement of your real success of being a manager, the information is very applicable! Being a manager appears to be a balancing act between managing those you are actually managing, those managers you are reporting to, and the other managers from other parts of the company whom are also managers. Success is how you interact with everyone.This is a very straight-forward (no fluff or filler in this book!), easy read and not long (at 132 pages). It is very direct and to the point so you wont spend a lot of time reading it (but filled with amazing information!), when your time is already limited. This would be a great gift for a new manager from his or her new manager (and/or mentor) whom is really looking to help develop the new leaders of the future.I love this book! Geared towards new managers, this is also a great refresher of what people above and below the manager judge as a good manager. Exceptional managers are hard to find, this would really help to step up ones game if you can do some self-reflection to see how you can do better. This is also a great read for someone who thinks they may someday want to move into a management position, it is never too early to start thinking and acting like a manger.⭐️ 1 star - I don't recommend it at all.⭐️⭐️ 2 stars - I don't recommend it, poorly written or bad information.⭐️⭐️⭐️ 3 stars - Good Book. Not for me. Not the most well written.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4 stars - Very good book quite, I would recommend and well written.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5 stars - Book that I totally recommend and could not put down. Well written and a book I would read again

When I first was promoted, I did what I assume most new managers do - google around a bit, read some articles & watch some TED talk, get inspired & then just kind of burn out from info overload & move on into the grind.The problem with online articles & tips is that they are mainly written by random content creators - ie employees - or some HR writers - again, employees. They’re also written with search term heavy phrases & just feel very gimmicky to read.This book was very easy to read, well laid out, not very detailed, and yet, covers the important topics that new managers are met with and introduces the new areas of responsibility that your new job will demand of you in order to excel.I appreciate the to-the-point sections and lack of wordiness, which respects the fact that new managers likely don’t have hours and hours of time or loads of brain space on their hands to read a deep and long book on the topic.I wish I had such a nice, helpful and concise book like this when I first started out, to help guide me to start off on a better foot. I think it’s great and can definitely recommend.

I've been some type of manager for the past 20 years and even with all that experience, it was great to read this book to get a different perspective. I like how the author backs a lot of his claims with data. The book is an easy read and although I got the paperback version first, I enjoyed it so much I bought the Kindle version also. I wish I read this a long time ago and it would have helped my journey as a manager. The simple steps outlined in this book are easy to follow and backed by real world examples. Overall I highly recommend this book!

Flipping through it seems to contain reasonable advice. It 's definitely geared toward a beginner. The advice is solid but not graoundbreaking. Thats not a dig, either - I think as a new manager you woould want tested and safe truths. At least in the first 90 days

Your First 90 Days Managing People: A New Manager's Guide to Impactful Leadership by Dr. CK Bray is a must read for anyone stepping into a managerial role. As a new manager, this book provided me with a clear, step-by-step guide on how to navigate the complexities of leadership. The breakdown into 30, 60, and 90-day plans made it easy to grasp and implement essential management strategies. I appreciated the focus on building trust with colleagues and effective communication. The real-life examples and stories were particularly reassuring, showing both successes and common pitfalls. This book truly helped me transition smoothly and confidently into my new role, and I highly recommend it to any first-time manager looking to make a positive impact.

This book is concise and to the point, and complements other hit-the-ground-running work preparation books well. There's another called The First 90 Days by Michael Watkins that, obviously, has the same timing of its advice. Together with other works like this or taken by itself, this book is great not only for making a good impression but giving actionable advice and ways to track your growth as a people manager, something I'd performed in temporary roles or with smaller teams before but have yet to put into real practice.