Knowing When to Shut Up!
21 Cringe Stories to Keep You from Becoming the Next Office Meme
Congratulations--you're a manager! A.k.a. you've just stepped into a year-long blooper reel where every slip comes with witnesses, Slack receipts, and maybe even a meme in your honor. "Knowing When to Shut Up" is not another dry leadership textbook--it's a field guide for surviving your first year in charge, told through 21 painfully funny stories that capture the real mistakes new managers make when confidence outruns competence. Inside, you'll find: The cringe-worthy scenarios every new leader faces, from trying too hard to be the "cool boss" to calling three projects the "#1 priority" in on...
Congratulations--you're a manager! A.k.a. you've just stepped into a year-long blooper reel where every slip comes with witnesses, Slack receipts, and maybe even a meme in your honor. "Knowing When to Shut Up" is not another dry leadership textbook--it's a field guide for surviving your first year in charge, told through 21 painfully funny stories that capture the real mistakes new managers make when confidence outruns competence. Inside, you'll find: The cringe-worthy scenarios every new leader faces, from trying too hard to be the "cool boss" to calling three projects the "#1 priority" in one meeting. Real-world echoes from history and business missteps that prove these aren't just rookie errors--they're timeless traps. Practical takeaways you can actually use: when to speak up, when to shut up, and how to keep your credibility intact when things go sideways. Quick-reference tools like "shut up or speak up" grids, generational tips, and survival rules for meetings, emails, and hybrid chaos. This isn't theory--it's the honest, awkward truth about leading people who used to be your peers, juggling four generations in the workplace, and learning how to pause before you commit yourself--or your team--to disaster. Michael Sarran, a consultant, educator, veteran, and HR professional, draws on more than two decades of leadership development experience to highlight the blunders that managers rarely admit but everyone remembers. With humor and hard-won insight, he makes leadership lessons both practical and entertaining. By the end, you won't have a perfect playbook--you'll have something better: the timing, clarity, and confidence to survive your first year in management without becoming the office cautionary tale.
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