After years of trying to blend in as a Los Angeles transplant, Cynthia Santos DeCure realized she had all but lost her Puerto Rican accent. So she set out to reclaim it. Across the country, Amy Mihyang Ginther struggled to find her voice as a young girl living in one world – the mostly white community she grew up in – while yearning for another – the Korean family who gave her up for adoption. Each woman’s story is a journey to discover what our voices say about who we are and who we could be.
Wharton researcher gives practical lessons for new managers In her new book, Rachel Pacheco of the Wharton School translates academic research, data, and real-life anecdotes into practical lessons and tools for emerging managers. Author, Rachel Pacheco, management instructor at the Wharton School and PennGSE (Image: BenBella Books, Inc.)
A guide for new managers, and especially those in fast-growing or startup organizations, the new book, “Bring Up the Boss: Practical Lessons for New Managers,” shares skills, along with research, data, anecdotes, and how-to-exercises to help employees become expert managers.
Written by Rachel Pacheco, a management instructor at the Wharton School and the Graduate School of Education, the book effectively shortcuts years of training, mentoring, and experience required to develop a manager by focusing on the key components of what makes a manager great.