The First-Time Manager's Handbook: A 90-Day Action Plan for Confident Leadership

Randy Furguson spent fifteen years in engineering and product leadership before founding his own leadership development firm. He began his career as a software engineer at a mid-size SaaS company, where he was promoted to his first management role at age twenty-six—and promptly made every mistake in this book. Over the next decade, he led teams at three technology companies, scaling from five-person units to organizations of over sixty people, before stepping away from corporate leadership to focus on coaching other first-time managers full-time.

His work has been featured in *Harvard Business Review* online, *Forbes*, and *Inc.*, where he writes about the practical challenges of frontline management. He is also the creator of the First Ninety Days program, which has been adopted by more than forty companies to accelerate the development of new managers. His clients range from seed-stage startups to Fortune 500 enterprises, and his approach is built on a simple conviction: that most management training is too theoretical, and that new leaders need actionable, day-by-day guidance more than they need abstract frameworks.

Randy lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and two children, where he coaches youth soccer on weekends and claims he can finally cook a respectable brisket. He speaks regularly at conferences and companies about the transition from individual contributor to manager and can be reached through his website, randymakesmanagers.com.