You were great at the job. Now you're responsible for the people doing it.
Most new managers get a title and a schedule, not a toolkit. So they fall back on the only style they've seen: give orders, chase numbers, hope it works. It produces compliance, and not much more.
The Modern Manager's Playbook Workbook is the practical companion to Ben Zheng's The Modern Manager's Playbook. It turns every ritual from that book into something you can pick up and use: a worksheet to fill in, a script to say out loud, a card for your pocket and a seven-day challenge to make it stick. Written by a manager who led teams on a high-volume operations floor, it's built for busy shifts where there's never time for a long meeting.
Inside you'll find eight Plays that help you:
Plus a Starting Line self-assessment, a 12-week plan, photocopiable templates, every key worksheet filled in by an example manager, and an AI prompt library for managers.
You don't need to have read the original book. Start with one Play this week, and lead your next shift differently.
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Ben Zheng is an operator, AI consultant and author based in Elkhart, Indiana. He founded 6ixcore LLC in 2020 and runs SuperCharge AI, where he builds AI agents and workflows for scheduling, customer support, content and operations. Before that, he managed operations on the floor: as an Area Manager at an Amazon delivery station he led about fifty people and cut off-task hours by 40 percent, and as a Panda Express store manager he ran a store doing more than 3,000 orders a week. He is the author of The Modern Manager's Playbook, Systems over Heroics and From Clicks to Conversions.