Leadership transitions

New Managers Don’t Have to Have All the Answers

How to get better at embracing the unknown.

by

Steven D’Souza

and

Diana Renner

by

Steven D’Souza

and

Diana Renner

September 30, 2015

If you are a newly promoted manager who feels the pressure to have all the answers expected of you from day one, don’t despair. You are not alone.

Steven D’Souza is the Director of Deeper Learning Ltd, an Associate Professor at IE Business School, Madrid, and Associate Fellow of the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. He has authored or co-authored three books: Made in Britain with Patrick Clarke, Brilliant Networking, and Not Knowing with Diana Renner, which won the CMI Management Book of the Year. He is listed on the Thinkers 50 Radar and HR Magazine’s ‘Most Influential’ list. He is working on a forthcoming book with Diana Renner and Robert Poynton. You can reach him on twitter @stevenxdsouza.
Diana Renner is the director and co-founder of the Uncharted Leadership Institute and the creator of Not Knowing Lab. She is also an associate with the Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne, and adjunct lecturer with the University of Adelaide and Monash University in Australia. Diana is the author, with Steven D’Souza, of Not Knowing: The Art of Turning Uncertainty into Opportunity, which won the Chartered Management Institute’s Management Book of the Year Award in 2015 in the U.K., and Not Doing: The Art of Effortless Action. She can be reached on Twitter @NotKnowingLab.

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