The Rollercoaster: A FIELD GUIDE FOR DISTRICT & AREA MANAGERS

Nobody told you it would feel like this.One minute your stores are running clean, your GMs are dialed in, and you feel like you've finally got a handle on this. An hour later your phone rings and the day you thought you had is gone. That's not a bad day. That's the job.The Rollercoaster is written for district and area managers in the restaurant industry — the leaders responsible for multiple locations/Multi-unit Leaders, multiple GMs, and an endless stream of decisions that follow them home every single night. It's not a textbook. It's not a corporate training manual. It's an honest field guide written from inside the ride by someone who has lived it.Inside you'll find:The identity shift nobody prepares you for when you stop running one store and start leading manyHow to coach the GM who has potential but keeps making the same mistakesWhat to do at 2 PM when the perfect morning falls apartThe personal cost of this position — the family, the faith, the early mornings, the late evenings — and how to carry it without being crushed by itA complete TURN framework for developing your managers into leaders who perform when you're not in the buildingFull coaching worksheets at the end of every chapter to use in the fieldThis isn't the version of district management where everything works and the leader rides off clean. This is the real version — where you earn it every day, where the doubt is real, and where the person you become through the pressure is worth becoming.Your habits decide your future. What you don't manage you lose. Whatever has your focus has you.If you're a district or area manager in the restaurant industry — or anyone leading multiple units in a high-pressure, people-first operation — this book was written for you. Read more