
Leadership Strategy and Tactics
by Jocko Willink · first published 2020
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Leadership Strategy and Tactics by Jocko Willink has a great chapter about how to act when you became a manager of your former peers. Joking around is definitely not the way to go to establish yourself as a leader.
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