Available March 4, 2025
From Simon & Schuster Wherever Books Are Sold
Available March 4, 2025
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Wherever Books Are Sold
You're The Boss
Become the Manager You Want to Be (and Others Need)
By Sabina Nawaz
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Turn the hidden pressures of management into astonishing results and become the boss everyone wants to work for. This must-read guide from elite executive coach Sabina Nawaz reveals the leadership secrets of highly successful managers.
Whether you’re in the C-Suite or newly promoted, one thing is clear: you’re succeeding at your job. But are you reaching your full potential as a manager? Most top performers suspect they aren’t, and Sabina Nawaz, former Microsoft executive and elite Fortune 500 coach, says they’re usually right. Unfortunately, it’s often hard to recognize the problem or know how to address it.
In You’re the Boss (Simon & Schuster), Nawaz taps her experience and proprietary data drawn from advising executives at organizations like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Motorola, Nordstrom, and the United Nations.
Her work reveals a simple truth: as our job expands, the added pressure to perform will corrupt our actions, and our increased power will blind us to the impact of those actions. It’s all too easy for even the most well-intentioned executive to become the boss nobody wants to work for.
You’re the Boss offers a new, evidence-based framework for managing pressure and power with grace and intelligence. Nawaz’s potent, tried-and-tested strategies guide you to anticipate and compensate for the unavoidable hazards of leadership without changing who you are. Based on over two decades of coaching and in-depth research into the psychology of behavior and relationships, You’re the Boss is your executive coach in book form. Discover a powerful, proven set of tools for managing yourself and others, navigating working relationships, and communicating effectively in every context. Become the boss you want to be—and others need—while experiencing less stress and greater impact.
If you can relate to any of these statements, this book is for you.
You’re the Boss is your executive coach in book form, helping you address management challenges at any career stage. Beyond traditional management advice, Sabina explores the dynamics of power and pressure, offering a fresh, transformative look at what it takes to succeed as a boss.
This practical, comprehensive, and insightful guide will help you:
Praise
FOR THE BOOK
“A practical guide to avoiding the mistakes that too many managers make.”
“Sabina Nawaz offers sage advice about how to bring out the best in others—and yourself.”
—Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and Hidden Potential, and host of the podcast Re:Thinking
“Practical strategies to make sure that you can be both good and great.”
“Pressure not only corrupts leaders—it renders them incompetent. It results in behaviors that are both brutal and ineffective. No leader aspires to be brutally ineffective, but too many of them do become just that. How can you make sure this doesn't happen to you? It's not enough to have a "good character." Nawaz offers practical strategies to make sure that you can be both good and great, rather than being corrupted by the pressure and blinded by the power that come with the job.”
—Kim Scott, author of Radical Candor and Just Work
“You're the Boss is a powerful guide for leaders navigating the pressures of authority and the pitfalls of power.”
“With unflinching honesty and insights from decades of management and coaching executives, Sabina helps readers recognize the blind spots that can hinder their growth. This book offers practical, field-tested strategies to help managers not only succeed, but inspire greatness in their teams.”
—Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, Thinkers50 #1 Executive Coach and New York Times bestselling author of The Earned Life, Triggers, and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There
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About
Sabina Nawaz
Sabina Nawaz is an elite executive coach who advises C-level executives and teams at Fortune 500 corporations, government agencies, nonprofits, and academic institutions around the world. Sabina gives dozens of keynotes, seminars, and conferences each year and teaches faculty at Northeastern and Drexel University.
During her fourteen-year tenure at Microsoft, she went from managing software development teams to leading the company’s executive development and succession planning efforts for over 11,000 managers and nearly a thousand executives, advising Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer directly. She has written for and been featured in Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Inc., Fast Company, NBC, Nasdaq, and MarketWatch.
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