Know Your People

Name: Know Your People
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ISBN: 9798996116201

How Great Managers Earn the Truth Their People Won't Say

Oz Akan

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English

Ever on Labs
17 May 2026

Management & management techniques; Management: leadership & motivation

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Most management problems are knowing problems.

You can be warm, capable, and well-intentioned - and still spend years hearing the polished version of your team. The person across from you is doing the math, in the second between your question and their answer, on what is safe to say. Power softens with warmth. It does not go away.

Know Your People is a working manual for the human side of management. Written by Oz Akan - who led teams for a decade and spent another as a principal consultant at AWS, working with engineering leaders at some of the world's largest companies - it argues that knowing each person on your team well enough to help them is not a supporting skill of the job. It is the job. Clear outcomes are the floor you stand on to do it.

The book gives you:

The Truth Ladder - five levels of knowing each person: Role → Range → Drive → Horizon → Fears. Each rung unlocks help the rung below it cannot. The weekly rhythm - five directions of attention (ask, listen, connect, notice, stretch) spread across a month, practiced inside meetings already on your calendar. The context frame - how clear outcomes reach each person through what you know about them. The ethics of knowing - what restraint looks like once the access is real. What you learned in confidence is not available as evidence. The Truth Ladder runs upward - managing the person above you is the same work, applied in the other direction.

You will also find:

A 30-day Quick Start that begins on Monday. A Manager's Toolkit at the back: one-on-one structure, handoff contract, decision-meeting questions, career conversation guide, recognition reference, feedback in the moment, the Damaging Boss Protocol, and a Manager Self-Assessment. Stories from rooms the author would rather forget - the public praise that exposed instead of honored, the design argument won by fluency rather than truth, the migration shipped in the wrong programming language because the people who would inherit it were never in the room.

Know Your People is a practical field manual with an honest argument underneath. It will give you something to do on Monday - and a reason to do it that does not ask the people doing the work to perform their wellbeing for you.

By: Oz Akan
Imprint: Ever on Labs
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 345g
ISBN: 9798996116201
Pages: 254
Publication Date: 17 May 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active