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The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
Little Wins. Every day, I’d jot down something I did that I was proud of, even if it was small.
from The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You by Julie Zhuo
Abhishek Sivaraman added 4mo ago
Resist this. Set boundaries by carving out time for the other important aspects of your life—spending time with loved ones, pursuing hobbies, exercising, giving back to your community, etc.
from The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You by Julie Zhuo
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Recognize that everyone in the world goes through hard times, and give yourself permission to worry.
from The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You by Julie Zhuo
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When a beloved manager on my team, Robyn Morris, left after many years to pursue a different passion, I was talking with one of his successors about how much we all missed him and deeply felt his absence.
from The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You by Julie Zhuo
Abhishek Sivaraman added 4mo ago
New managers often ask me, “How long will it take to feel like I know what I’m doing?” I reply quite honestly, “It took me about three years.”
from The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You by Julie Zhuo
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“A decade into the job, what’s something you’re still continuing to learn?” My answer is, “How to be the best leader I can while staying true to who I am.
from The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You by Julie Zhuo
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That’s why they assumed the room could quickly grasp all the salient points as they flipped from slide to slide.
from The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You by Julie Zhuo
Abhishek Sivaraman added 4mo ago
The solution is to help everyone come prepared. The change we made to our decision and review meetings was to ask the organizers to send out any presentations or documents the day before so that everyone got the chance to process the information in advance.
from The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You by Julie Zhuo
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What kinds of challenges are interesting to you and why? Can you describe a favorite project? This tells me what a candidate is passionate about. What do you consider your greatest strengths? What would your peers agree are your areas of growth? This question gets both at a candidate’s self-awareness and what his actual strengths and weaknesses mig
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