35 Impactful Questions Managers Should Ask Themselves Regularly

Thinking about team management as a product: - Set up advanced listening mechanisms: help your PMs become better listeners- Keep your feedback loops healthy at all costs: Establish a consistent set of group and one-on-one meetings, ideally early in the week to help set the tone and get the team on the same page.- Your team should have a purpose as ... See more

Here are some questions you can ask yourself today to begin growing your self-awareness. Jot down the answers to create your own set of rules: ● What environment do you work best in? ● When do you work best? ● At what time of day do you have your best ideas? ● How much sleep do you need? ● Do you prefer lists or schedules? ● Do you work better with

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Some prompts for questions I find helpful:What mistakes did I make this week?What am I being an idiot about?What am I missing?What was my biggest success this week?What is my biggest bottleneck?What is the right lesson to take from this week?In an ideal version of this week, I would have […]What am I currently procrastinating about?Whose advice wil... See more

"Four questions that can tell you a lot:

1. When you wake up, do you expect today to have many joys or many frustrations?


2. When presented with an opportunity, do you have a bias toward action or do you postpone decisions?


3. When things go well for others, do you enjoy cheering them on or do you hate to hear about their success?


4. When things go wrong, do y

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I had the pleasure of working with Frank Wagner, who is now one of our key People Operations leaders at Google, in 1994, when we were consultants. In the minutes before every client meeting, he would take me aside and ask me questions: “What are your goals for this meeting?” “How do you think each client will respond?” “How do you plan to introduce

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