Team: Getting Things Done with Others
This is the crux of management: It is the belief that a team of people can achieve more than a single person going it alone. It is the realization that you don’t have to do everything yourself, be the best at everything yourself, or even know how to do everything yourself. Your job, as a manager, is to get better outcomes from a group of people wor
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Raphael shook his head. “I get it, but you can’t just set goals up and hope they happen. You have to execute against them as a team. That means check ins. Just like the daily stand-ups and weekly planning we do in Agile. It can be a good, useful meeting if you have a framework you use every week to guide the meeting.” He grabbed a napkin and unfold
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The job was objective based and results focused: Get me on 200 podcasts in 2020. Make the process incredibly easy for me, so that the only thing I have to think about is showing up. Involved in completing that task was handling the key relationships, such as with the publicist at the publisher, and then doing all the pitching, scheduling, and back-
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