Good Work
Managing Yourself and Managing Management
While you’ve got your craft, the thing your title says you do, the stuff in the job description, that isn’t the only thing going on at work. Not by a long shot. You’ve got conflict, building relationships, re-orgs, politics, drama. All the things that you have to learn to navigate, but no one tells you how to. Until now.
Good Work: Managing Yourself and Managing Management is that missing guide, offering two crucial perspectives: as a manager and as worker, or IC.
Drawing on her years of high-stakes experience at Google, Twitter, Meta and a lot more, Margo Stern takes her wisdom and builds on it. The book includes insights from a diverse set of engineers, PMs, and marketers from big FAANG companies down to start-ups and a lot more. Together, Good Work delivers the cheat codes, hacks and tactics to not just work, but succeed at all the work that isn’t the work.
Conflict resolution
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Re-orgs
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Growth
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Building relationships
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Influence
Conflict resolution ✳︎ Re-orgs ✳︎ Growth ✳︎ Building relationships ✳︎ Influence
Karen Wickre
Author of “Taking the Work out of Networking. Your Guide to Making and Keeping Great Connections”
IC foreword
Catt Small
Author of “The Staff Designer: Grow, Influence and Lead as an Individual Contributor”
Manager foreword
Two-sided book means two forewords
Advance excitement for Good Work
“Margo Stern is a sharp cookie and her book, ‘Good Job’ is excellent. In it are tactical approaches and solid advice. Critically, it addresses both sides of the interview process: the interviewing itself and the conducting of the interview. Each has issues, and by providing both perspectives, she offers insight to both the interviewee and the interviewer. But the icing on the cake is that she and her designer, Josh Silverman, have designed the book to be read forwards and backwards. Given this, I CAN’T WAIT to read her new book, ‘Good Work’ and it will go to the top of my book dragon pile.”
-Dave Hoffer, Designer
“Margo is one of the smartest people I know. Listen to her.”
-Emily Nagoski, Ph.D, co-author of the New York Times bestseller Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle“Margo’s last book showed us how to get that job. This book will show us how to keep it.”
-Andy Welfle, Author, “Writing is Designing”