The Inherited Team: How to Lead People You Did Not Choose - Couverture souple

Thorne, Matthew E.

 
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Synopsis

You did not choose this team. You have to lead it anyway.

Most management books teach you how to build a team from scratch. This one begins where most leaders actually start: walking into a room full of people you did not hire, inheriting dynamics you did not create, and problems someone else avoided for years.

The Inherited Team is a practitioner's guide to taking over an existing team and making it yours, without burning the trust you need to lead it. The book moves through three stages.

Read the Room. The quiet archaeology of finding out what your predecessor really left behind, who the truth-tellers are, and what the team is not telling you.

Reset the Room. The operating system, the first accountability moment, the underperformer you inherited, and the sacred cow that has to go.

Own the Room. Restructuring, hiring, building peer accountability, and making the new way stick once the adrenaline of arrival has faded.

Inside, you will find scripts for the hardest conversations, frameworks for the decisions no one trained you for, and a realistic account of what the job involves on Monday morning. No theory, no jargon, and no pretence that leadership is simple. Just the moves that work when the team is already in the room and the clock has already started.

For new managers, experienced leaders stepping into unfamiliar teams, and anyone who has ever been told "here is your new team" and wondered what to do next.

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