“You’d tell me why those activities matter in the first place. “If I asked you, ‘what is the job of a soccer player?’ would you say that it’s to attend practices, pass the ball to their teammates, and attempt to score goals? Of course not,” says Zhuo. This is why she released her new book, The Making of a Manager: What to do when everyone looks to you - in which she offers practical advice, relatable anecdotes, questions and exercises for modern managers looking to improve their leadership skills.Īs Zhuo states in the book, “great managers are made, not born.”ġ Your job as a manager is to get better outcomes from a group of people working together.Įven though the responsibilities of a manager include exchanging feedback, organizing great meetings, and creating processes to get work done smoothly, Julie Zhuo argues these activities don’t define a manager’s main job. Today, with nearly ten years as a manager under her belt, Zhuo hopes to empower managers around the world and help them understand that most managers (from sales to design, to engineering) go through the same experiences. “I mean, this was a promotion, wasn’t it? Everyone knows this conversation is the equivalent of Harry Potter getting a visit from Hagrid on a dark and stormy night, the first step in an adventurous and fulfilling career.” “All that I knew of management could be neatly summarized into two words: meetings and PROMOTION,” says Zhuo. She started working at Facebook as an intern and got promoted to her first management position at the age of 25.
However, Zhuo wasn’t always at the top of a world-renowned organization. She leads a team of hundreds of employees who work on designing the experience that more than two billion people see when they tap the blue Facebook icon on their phones. Julie Zhuo is Facebook’s VP of Product Design.
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