# Professor Beth Bechky shares leadership advice for new managers

1 Faculty News January 5, 2016 ![Fast Company logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_026723.jpg?itok=PGORMP3v)>

Excerpt from [Fast Company](http://www.fastcompany.com/3054714/hit-the-ground-running/mastering-the-transition-to-becoming-a-manager-of-your-former-coworke) -- "According to [Beth Bechky](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/beth-bechky), who teaches courses in managing high-performance teams at New York University’s Stern School of Business, it’s easy for a team to assume that if the members of a team are still the same, nothing has actually changed. But now that you’re in a new position, even though you’re working with the same people, 'that’s a moment at which everyone needs to reflect on what they’re doing,' Bechky says."

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