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Julie Zhuo
Julie Zhuo is one of Silicon Valley's top product design executives. She leads the teams behind some of the world's most popular mobile and web services used by billions of people every day. She writes about technology, design, and leadership on her popular blog The Year of the Looking Glass and in publications like the New York Times and Fast Company. She graduated with a computer science degree from Stanford University and lives with her husband and two children in California.
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Penguin Random House (http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/)
Author of THE MAKING OF A MANAGER
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Julie Zhuo Shares How Marketing Can Work In Tandem With Design To Create Magic
Former VP of design at Facebook and author of Wall Street bestseller The Making of a Manager, Julie Zhuo reveals how magic is made when design and marketing work in tandem.
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Cheddar TV - Are You Manager Material?
Leading a team can be overwhelming, but with the right tools, you can successfully navigate your reports through tough times. Julie Zhuo, author of 'The Making of a Manager', talks about how she became a manager at 25 and what she's learned in the process.
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HBR IdeaCast - The Challenges (and Triumphs) of a Young Manager
Julie Zhuo, Facebook’s VP of product design, started at the company as its first intern and became a manager at the age of 25. Like many first-time bosses, she made many missteps and acted how she thought managers were supposed to act. Eventually, she grew to find joy in the role and today she leads hundreds of people. She says that becoming a great manager also helps you know yourself better. Zhuo is the author of the book “The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You.”
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I believe this as deeply as I believe anything: Great managers are made, not born. It doesn’t matter who you are. If you care enough to be reading this, then you care enough to be a great manager. Dear reader, I hope that this book gives you useful tips for your day-to-day. But more importantly, I hope this book helps you understand the whys of management, because only when you’ve bought into the whys can you truly be effective in the hows. Why do managers even exist? Why should you have one-on-one meetings with your reports? Why should you hire Candidate A over Candidate B? Why do so many managers make the same mistakes?
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Running a team is hard because it ultimately boils down to people, and all of us are multifaceted and complex beings. Just like how there is no one way to go about being a person, there is no one way to go about managing a group of people.
And yet, working together in teams is how the world moves forward. We can create things far grander and more ambitious than anything we could have done alone. This is how battles are won, how innovation moves forward, how organizations succeed. This is how any remarkable achievement happens.
