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The Modern Management Mentor: Next-Level Tools for New Managers
Your past success earned you the opportunity to lead others—but now your new role is about your team members’ performance and results.
Sure, you’ve nailed your deadlines or quotas—but how do you set goals to have a whole team deliver?
You’ve received excellent performance reviews and had great coaches. . . but now it’s your turn to develop unique team members.
Management isn’t an inherent skill–it is a learned, reinforced skill set. This leadership guide for newly promoted managers includes practical guidance and over 50 tools for the next level in your career.
Unlike other management books that are aspirational, this book is purely practical.
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Trim Size: 7.5 x 9.25
Publishing Date: September 2023
ISBN: 978-1634896313
Publisher: Wise Ink Creative Publishing
Distribution Partner: Itasca Books
Praise for The Modern Management Mentor
“A comprehensive guide to changing positions and taking on greater responsibility in the corporate world. The combination of [her] storytelling approach and the broad sweep of her material works powerfully to demystify all aspects of corporate team-leadership. . . . Stone’s readers will find her book invaluable for reminding them of all the important moving parts of their new work experience. A well-designed and wide-ranging primer for team management.”
— Kirkus ReviewS
“In true Christine Sandman Stone fashion, The Modern Management Mentor strips through the BS, builds you up, and gives you immediate actions to leverage in your day to day. Finally - a management book that not only makes you think but provides actionable steps to grow your career and the career of others!”
— Kate Andorka
Manager, Program Management, Starbucks
"Christine possesses a remarkable skillset that enables her to navigate leaders through the intricate landscape of the evolving leadership paradigm. Her book is informative, empowering, and loaded with pragmatic resources that can aid leaders in amplifying their voices and arming their toolkits."
— Yemi Akisanya
VP, Axon
“Every new or aspiring people manager should utilize this book to turbo charge their career. Christine is a proven leader and an incredible coach, and this book is jam packed with her practical and actionable guidance.”
— Deb Hall Lefevre
Chief Technology Officer, Starbucks
“This book is a generous and tool-packed gift to all whose work includes managing people – new managers and twenty-year veterans alike. Christine provides the bridge from those big ideas you might have heard in a training session to the daily realities of people and work.”
— Katie Dowling
Head of Global Technology Delivery and Operation, Morningstar
The workplace has changed. This book is a thoughtful guide to the most important and teachable aspects for managers to thrive in their role. The book is a comprehensive and approachable guide for all managers. Every company needs to put one of these books in the hands of all their managers.
— Gina Flaig
Executive Director - Talent + Organizational Development, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
Want to order Christine’s books for your career center? The author is committed to helping people achieve their career goals, and will offer bulk order discounts to any organization with the same mission.
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The Parent Track
After raising four children while moving up in the competitive world of technology, Christine Sandman Stone has compiled an authentic, funny, and realistic resource to help working parents find an authentic balance. Through advice, anecdotes, and “hacks,” The Parent Track aims to accelerate the next generation of parents in the workforce, helping them influence policy, increase business profits, and raise good humans.
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 x 8.5
Published: March 2020
ISBN: 978-1634892933
Publisher: Wise Ink Creative Publishing
Distribution Partner: Itasca Books
Feedback from readers of The Parent Track
“A powerful summary of ‘parenting hacks’ and leadership advice written in a humorous and heart-warming way.”
— Kelley Berlin
Senior Vice President of People, Grubhub
“Christine is a gifted storyteller who weaves wisdom and wit into impactful and proven advice for anyone who wants to be successful in business.”
— Deb Hall Lefevre
CTO, StarBucks
“Finally, someone tells it like it is, with wisdom, humor and common sense. Christine Stone lights a way for working parents to find meaning in the chaos without all of the ridiculousness of trying to ‘have it all’. As we navigate this new world without traditional rules or roles, it's a relief to know that we can indeed raise good humans, build good careers and develop the next generation without losing our minds.”
— Maura Colleton Corbett
CEO and Founder, Glen Echo Group, LLC
“Working parents will find much to relate to, and strategies to adopt, in Christine Stone’s refreshingly honest and practical guide on thriving at work and at home…The Parent Track is an incredible blueprint for finding success in work and life.”
— Leslie Vickrey
CEO and Founder, ClearEdge Marketing | Co-Founder, ARA Mentors
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Whether you’re a working parent, new to the tech industry, or a curious reader, we want to know what practical applications from The Parent Track, or personal hacks and tools, have helped you.