How to Manage: Finding Yourself Again

Women at Work

Harvard Business Review

Entrepreneurship, Workplace, Business/management, Business/entrepreneurship, Progress, Resources, Gender, Equality, Business/careers, Women, Hbr, Careers, Management, Business, Harvard, Human

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Who are you now, who do you want to be, and how can you stretch without taking on too much? Jen Dary regularly coaches first-time managers on these questions. She shares advice for finding yourself anew at work, dealing with disillusionment, and setting priorities and boundaries. Then, a former guest who’s one year into leading a major project tells us about her aha moments. Finally, Kelsey answers the question of whether or not she’s ready to try management again.

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0:00.0	Once your business gets to a certain size, the cracks start to emerge.
0:05.4	Things you used to do in a day take a week.
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0:16.9	absolutely free at NetSuite.com slash women at work.
0:21.2	That's NetSuite.com slash women at work.
0:26.3	Now that you manage people, do you feel like a different person at work?
0:32.3	That's a question we put to new managers.
0:35.3	Here's how Jen, Cherry, and Christy responded.
0:38.3	I feel different in that I have responsibility for people now,
0:44.3	and their livelihood, as opposed to just myself and my work.
0:50.3	I can almost feel myself growing.
0:53.3	I'm in the stage of uncomfortable, but a good kind of uncomfortable.
0:59.3	I do feel different.
1:00.3	I like a different person at work.
1:02.3	I feel more jaded.
1:04.3	I feel more tired and burnt out.
1:06.3	I feel less hopeful.
1:09.3	It's almost like lifting the curtain, lifting the veil,
1:13.3	and realizing a lot of systemic issues in my workplace.
1:20.3	While I have more experience under my belt,
1:22.3	and I'm able to work more efficiently,
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