Rousoudis
From Managing to Leading PeopleCongratulations. You are now a manager!You were promoted because you were an expert in your field. Nobody told you that your new role demands entirely different skills. Tools and processes are quick to learn. People are the hard part: they don’t come with documentation, and they don’t accept pull requests. Suddenly you have to influence without authority, give feedback no one wants to hear, delegate without controlling everything, and decide when you are not sure. None of this was on the syllabus.Then there is AI. As it takes on more and more technical work, these human skills become your real advantage. And AI joins your team as its newest member: it never argues, never sleeps, and confidently makes things up. Someone has to manage that too. Guess who.This book will not give you a recipe. Recipes work in kitchens, not in complex systems made of humans. Instead, across 27 chapters built on ShuHaRi, the Japanese path to mastery, you will first learn the rules that work (Shu), then bend them to fit the reality of your team and your organization (Ha), and finally move beyond them to build your own way of leading (Ri). Every chapter comes with a practical tool and exercises you can try today.You were promoted for what you knew. But your team is waiting for a leader. Don’t keep them waiting any longer.
