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New York Newsday
October 2nd, 2005
By Patricia Kitchen
New to management? Everybody needs an 'Ed'
The two men worked together nine years ago at Credit Suisse in Manhattan when Miserandino was in a back-office, trader-support role. Now executive editor of TheCelebri tyCafe.com, the Malverne-based online celebrity magazine he founded, Miserandino says he invokes his mentor's philosophy so often that his staff refers to it as "The Book of Ed."
At countless junctures during a week, Miserandino, 32, says he'll stop and ask, "What would Ed do?" And when he calls Linares for advice on such issues as employee problems, he sometimes gets a dose of reality: "They're stupid like you were once stupid."
The message for other young people - many of whom are being moved forward in companies or starting their own businesses - is this: You do need help in developing management skills, it's OK to admit it, and there are other "Eds" out there who can coach you.
Often it's the high performers who get tapped for first-time management assignments: overseeing the interns, a group of temp workers, a short-term project. These are great lower-risk training grounds for developing people skills, says Sharon Daniels, chief executive of Tampa, Fla.-based training and consulting firm AchieveGlobal. But you have no real authority, you say? No problem, Daniels says. Even high-level executives know that it's less about authority and more about influence - getting people onboard willingly. The key is credibility, and here are some basic steps to developing it.
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