How to Be a Better Micromanager
How to build this skill:
- Maximize what you can do on your own: by ruthlessly prioritizing your time, pushing back on activities that have small ROI, and focusing on areas where your input is crucial; for engineers, it often means less coding (if more junior people can do that piece of coding).
- How you can maximize what you can do through others: b
3 Critical Skills You Need to Grow Beyond Senior Levels in Engineering
Nicolay Gerold added
You need to delegate what you think you are best at. You need to stand back, watch the work you used to once doing best, being done by someone else, and resist the urge to interfere. Results won't be exactly as you would like them to be, but soon you will have a company that can do more than you, and earn more than you alone. You graduate from bein... See more
Alexey added
For managers, important processes to master include running effective meetings, future proofing against past mistakes, planning for tomorrow, and nurturing a healthy culture. Purpose, people, process. The why, the who, and the how. A great manager constantly asks herself how she can influence these levers to improve her team’s outcomes. As the team
... See moreJulie Zhuo • The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
1. Planning and self-organization.
2. Work with me document.
3. Take some time for networking.
4. Train your micro-habits.
5. Codify your corporate culture.
Daniel Florian • Five tips for mobile working
Elizabeth Pass added
My goal is to structure teams around minimizing “coordination headwind,” as described by Alex Komoroske in this deck on seeing organizations as slime mold. The rough idea is that coordination costs (caused by uncertainty and disagreements) increase with scale, and adding managers doesn’t improve things. People’s incentives become misaligned. People... See more
Lenny Rachitsky • How Perplexity builds product
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