How to Convince Your Boss You Should Be a Manager

You don’t need management experience to have leadership potential

Jessica Powell
Forge
Published in
4 min readJan 28, 2020

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An illustration of a person walking up building blocks and holding the block for the next step.
Illustration: Simo Liu

Jessica Powell, the former Google vice president who wrote The Big Disruption and told you how to quit your job, is here to answer your common but tricky work questions. Check back every other week for more management advice with a tech inflection.

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Jessica Powell
Forge

Technophile, technophobe. Music software start-up founder. Former Google VP. Author, The Big Disruption. Fan of shochu, chocolate, and the absurd.