A helpful guide for first time managers, as long as you're at a large company.

Make Me the Boss provides advice and guidance for first time managers as they navigate their jobs for the first year, particularly in the first 90 days. There are chapters discussing getting started, building relationships with your team, coaching your team members to develop skills, doing performance reviews, transitioning the role, and handling tough conversations.

Overall, the advice seems useful. It does take into account the modern workplace in a way that many management books do not. I also really appreciated the section on upleveling and skills development rather than always striving for a particular title, useful when coaching team members. The opening did kind of annoy me though; acting as if all millennials don't know how to actually call someone is annoying. I also felt that the inclusion of some of the Black Lives Matter topics, while important, felt a bit disingenuous, even though they are important to discuss and consider in the workplace. The section on diversity and inclusion awareness and how to improve hiring processes felt much more useful and well-thought-out.

For me, the biggest struggle with this book was that it's really designed for larger companies with several layers of hierarchy and relatively large HR departments. That makes the advice less useful to me personally, given the structure of my company, but I don't think that's a problem with the book in general, just something to be aware of when you go into it.