New startups come on the scene filled with incredible young people. These start-ups grow, the team expands, and those young people all of a sudden have the responsibility of a team under them. Just a few years prior, these folks were barely able to support themselves in their crazy, ever-changing company. Now, as "managers," they are expected-often without any direction or manager role models-to know how to develop, coach, structure work, review, and set expectations for a whole bunch of new, incredible young people.
First-timers want to quickly learn what it takes to be a successful manager-like they learned how to program, how to design, how to operate-and put those learnings into practice. But what does it mean to manage, and how do you teach someone to be a good manager?
Enter Rachel Pacheco, an expert at helping startups solve their people and culture challenges. Pacheco, former Chief People Officer at Oxeon and a founding member of the executive team of the JPMorgan Chase Institute, conducts research on management at the Wharton School and works with CEOs and their managers to build the skills necessary to navigate a rapidly-scaling organization.
Bringing Up the Boss : Practical Lessons for New Managers
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Rachel Pacheco, PhD, is a management author, lecturer, and researcher at The Wharton School. She is passionate about teaching people what it takes to be great managers and coaching executives and leaders on how to build thriving teams and organizations. At Wharton, Rachel conducts research on management-specifically on power and conflict-and is a member of the teaching faculty. She is also a founding faculty member of the Entrepreneurship in Education Program at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches multiple courses for budding entrepreneurs that focus on the practical side of working in a small organization.
Additionally, Rachel serves on the board of advisors for numerous start-ups, primarily in the digital health and wellness space. A former chief people officer, she was on the executive teams of start-ups in the healthcare and big data space. She holds a PhD and MBA from The Wharton School and a BS from Georgetown University.