Leading well without feeding sleep problems
Leadership often expands just as sleep, energy, caregiving, and tolerance for pointless work become less predictable. Zhuo demystifies first-time management through one-to-ones, feedback, hiring, meetings, team design, and the uncomfortable shift from producing work to enabling others. Sleep problems are not solved by better management technique, but unclear expectations and avoided conversations can follow a leader home. At this stage of life, the book offers a calmer definition of authority: prepare, communicate directly, ask for feedback, and stop treating every difficult moment as proof of inadequacy. Management becomes a learnable practice rather than a personality test.
About Julie Zhuo
Julie Zhuo became a Facebook manager at 25 when she still felt more comfortable designing products than leading people. Her team eventually grew from a handful to hundreds, and the book preserves the mistakes, doubts, and practical lessons hidden inside that expansion.
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