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Nobody gave you a manual. This is the closest thing.
A map of the first year in management: what actually breaks at each stage, the mistake almost everyone makes there, and the one thing to read when it happens. Not a course. A map you come back to.
Where are you on the map?
Your first year as a manager
Seven stages. Each one breaks something different.
Your stage is open below. The others stay collapsed so you are not reading about a problem you do not have yet.
Something is on fire that the map does not cover?
Timelines are useful until they are not. Three doors out, none of them require a stage.
Two ways through the same year
Pull it when you need it, or have it arrive once a month.
The map and the letters cover the same arc. The difference is who does the remembering.
The map, on demand
You come back when something breaks, find your stage, and read the one thing that helps. Nothing to sign up for, nothing to keep up with.
- 98 guides, 48 calculators, 21 quizzes, all open
- No email, no account, no expiry
- Best when you are firefighting and need an answer tonight
52 Weeks, one letter a month
The same year, delivered in the order the problems actually arrive rather than the order you stumble into them. Twelve letters, one a month.
- One email a month, twelve letters covering the year
- Every letter stands alone, so joining midway costs nothing
- Best when you want to get ahead of the stage you are in
There are also 5 paid toolkits from $19 if you want the done-for-you version: editable playbooks and word-for-word scripts. Everything else on this site stays free. See the toolkits
One more thing
If your stage is not on the map, ask.
Some problems do not fit a timeline. Ask anonymously, and the answer comes back as a full write-up. Your situation is more common than you think, which is exactly why it becomes an article that helps the next person.
The letters · Free
One letter a month, for the year you are in the middle of.
The map above is there when something breaks. The letters come to you instead, one a month, each about the thing that is probably happening right now.
Start with the next one.
Your first letter arrives at the start of next month.