Summary of Ryan Hawk's Welcome to Management

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#1 You can’t lead others successfully over the long term if you don’t take ownership of leading yourself. This is why focusing on leading yourself well is the proper starting point to learning how to lead others.

#2 The most important person you are responsible for leading well is yourself. You must embrace the mindset, attitudes, behaviors, and habits of a self-driven learner to earn credibility and build skills.

#3 The first step to leading others is to lead yourself well. The best leaders know that leading yourself well is the first step to leading anyone else successfully.

#4 Self-awareness is the ability to see yourself clearly, as well as the environment around you and your reactions to it. It is a delicate balance of two distinct, even competing, viewpoints.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 3, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822529311

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#1

You can’t lead others successfully over the long term if you don’t take ownership of leading yourself. This is why focusing on leading yourself well is the proper starting point to learning how to lead others.

#2

The most important person you are responsible for leading well is yourself. You must embrace the mindset, attitudes, behaviors, and habits of a self-driven learner to earn credibility and build skills.

#3

The first step to leading others is to lead yourself well. The best leaders know that leading yourself well is the first step to leading anyone else successfully.

#4

Self-awareness is the ability to see yourself clearly, as well as the environment around you and your reactions to it. It is a delicate balance of two distinct, even competing, viewpoints.

#5

Pocket awareness is a quarterback’s sense of what’s going on around him as the defensive rushers close in, even as he maintains his focus downfield. If the quarterback ceases to have a clear internal understanding of who he is and how others perceive him, his attempts to lead will fall flat.

#6

Self-awareness is not something that you either have or don’t. It is something that can be pursued, built, and grown over time. It comes from taking self-assessment surveys and coaching relationships, and seeing yourself through a different lens.

#7

Curiosity is the recognition, pursuit, and intense desire to explore novel, challenging, and uncertain events. It is about more than just having an inquisitive nature; it serves as an amplifier of your natural intellectual capacity.