We learned how to become a great manager faster so you can too!

The science behind becoming a better manager.

Being a manager these days is harder than ever — and becoming great at it takes a lot of time and energy we often don’t have. But the world needs great managers right now, as only 20% of employees across the world strongly agree their managers actually motivate them. What if there were a way to simplify the complexity of leadership and become a great manager faster?

The Leader Lab book provides that solution with simple, highly-effective skills that will level up the way you lead. As you master the skills our LifeLabs Learning experts have laid out, you’ll notice your life getting easier, and you’ll see yourself making a bigger difference in the world every day.

What makes a great manager great?

First, some context — here at LifeLabs Learning, we’ve spent over a decade studying what makes great managers different in order to identify the specific, observable behaviors that matter most. We’ve taught over 200,000 managers all over the world from thousands of innovative companies like Reddit, TED, Etsy, Dropbox, Lyft, and Tinder.

Turns out, not all skills are created equal.

We’ve zeroed in on the smallest changes that lead to the biggest impact in the shortest time. We call these ‘tipping point skills,’ and this book will help you master them to unlock countless other skills and handle any challenge that comes your way. Think of these tipping point skills as the primary colors—there are only three of them, but together they combine to make infinite, complex colors.

So, what skills matter most? Of all the skills we studied, 8 kept rising up to the surface as tipping point skills: