ASK DR. MAC:
Take the Journey to Authentic Leadership

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Story Summary

Ask Dr. Mac is a story about the transformation of a newly promoted manager, Justin O'Brien, who is neither emotionally nor professionally prepared to take on a role that he hadn't remotely expected to be offered. Faced with a disgruntled department, an absentee boss, and essentially no management experience whatsoever, Justin suddenly finds himself very alone as captain of what is quickly becoming a sinking ship. Then, just as things are going from bad to worse, Justin's fate changes as he accidentally discovers a daily advice column in the local newspaper called Ask Dr. Mac, written by a management guru of the same name. Partly out of desperation and partly out of curiosity, Justin, using the alias of "Desperate Dave," begins submitting many of his newly created management problems to the Ask Dr. Mac column, in hopes of receiving some kind of guidance.

To Justin's surprise and delight, Dr. Mac takes a personal interest in "Desperate Dave" and regularly responds to his management problems with very helpful advice, better known as Macology. Part of that advice is for Justin to keep a journal for all his insights and lessons learned since becoming a manager. Thanks in part to Dr. Mac's tutelage and his journal entries-not to mention his own tenacity, Justin is able to navigate through the challenges and pitfalls of becoming a manager and eventually turns his struggling department into one of the top-performing teams at DataDump.

The story comes to an end with a couple of surprise, life-changing events, that once again challenge Justin to lead like he's never led before.

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