Alice Uli
Anti-manager.
Level 1. I And Only I.
Anti-Manager is your guide into the world of soft skills — where self-awareness, balance, and personal efficiency become the core of professional success.
Forget everything you knew about management.
Anti-Manager doesn’t start with your team — it starts with you.
This book shows why authentic leadership is born not in corporate rules but in personal maturity.
What You’ll Learn from This Book
Manage yourself — not just your time.
Learn to structure personal efficiency: planning, focus, productivity, balance, and realistic goals instead of endless deadline chasing.
Understand your emotions and reactions.
Through emotional intelligence, you’ll learn to recognize your states, manage stress, and stay calm even in chaos.
Take full responsibility for results.
Move from “I’m being managed” to “I influence outcomes.” Build autonomy, direction, and intrinsic motivation.
Maintain work-life balance.
Avoid burnout, restore your energy, and build long-term support systems that actually work.
Build your personal Anti-Manager strategy.
Develop your own measurable and adaptive soft-skills roadmap — aligned with your personality, profession, and life rhythm.
Inside the Book
5 things you’ll find inside:
- How to think like an adult — not react like a child.
- Why productivity starts with self-honesty.
- How to manage energy, not only time.
- How to shift from “I must” to “I choose.”
- How to build resilience when everything changes.
And 3 things you won’t find:
- Glossy tips and motivational clichés.
- “Magic” formulas from TikTok coaches.
- Empty theory without practice or reflection.
Who This Book Is For
- For managers and leaders who want to develop not only teams but themselves through deeper self-reflection, emotional maturity, and personal soft-skills growth.
- For professionals in IT, marketing, education, or healthcare — anyone working with people, making decisions, and balancing daily between should and can.
- For those tired of productivity slogans and looking for a structured, realistic self-management system — without hype or manipulation.
- For those who feel something “isn’t working”: lack of focus, energy, or clarity — and are ready to look honestly in the mirror and change their approach.
- For future Anti-Managers — people who seek to understand, not control; to grow, not compete; to be authentic, not perform.
Feedbacks
A refreshing, real, and deeply human management book
Finally, a book about soft skills that doesn’t sound like another leadership cliché. Anti-manager is honest, practical, and full of insights you can actually use. It feels like a conversation with a mentor who’s been through it all — mistakes, growth, and reflection.
Miriam, Senior Product Manager at a global SaaS company in Amsterdam
Every manager should start here
This book doesn’t just teach you how to manage others — it teaches you how to manage yourself. It breaks down emotional intelligence, focus, and self-awareness in a way that’s easy to read and hard to forget. A must-have for any leader.
Adrian, Engineering Team Lead at a fintech startup in Berlin
The missing link between productivity and self-awareness
There’s no fluff here — just clear thinking, structure, and practical frameworks. The way the author explains burnout, focus, and balance is something every modern professional needs. It’s insightful, reflective, and truly useful.
Nick, Operations Director at a technology consulting firm in London
About the Author
Alice Uli (Olesia Ulianova), holds a PhD in Technical Sciences and an MBA. She is an expert with over 15 years of experience in IT and team management. Having progressed from a technical specialist to the CEO of an IT company, she combines deep technological expertise with a systemic understanding of human and organizational development.
Throughout her career, she has worked with all levels of management — from line leaders to C-level executives — and developed her own methodology for soft skills’ growth in managers, which became the foundation of the Anti-Manager book series.
Her approach is grounded in practice, psychology, and deep reflection — without theoretical clichés or glossy slogans, but with honest analysis, clear structure, and real-life management examples.
Alice conducts training programs for leaders, mentors managers, and creates educational projects on emotional intelligence, self-management, productivity, and mature leadership.
Buy the book
The “Anti-Manager” series is the result of many years of experience, hundreds of teams, and thousands of management decisions, transformed into systemic tools for developing yourself and the people around you.
