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Another common question I’m answering working with scaling tech companies is…
Q. What’s the worst leadership advice you’ve heard?
A. By far the worst is “Hire great people and get out of their way”.
Let me explain… 🧵 (1/32) https://t.co/5X9U9uLCre
Make Consequences Clear Before Firing
- Tell underperformers clearly that their job is at risk if they don't change and document the warnings per HR requirements.
- Make consequences explicit rather than trying to fix personal issues for them.
Transcript:
Dave Smith
I agree it's not your job to fix their personal issues, but it is your job to make sure
Soft Skills Engineering • Episode 474: I Hate the Idea of Firing a Low Performer and Cheaper Context Switching
I've just finished my 8th interview with a (large) company. I asked my interviewer what are the characteristics and behaviours of a successful senior engineer at the company for "getting things done" and having impact. He said "Your job as an engineer is to put management into a
Tweets From Satnam Singh · @satnam6502twitter.comI'm consistently surprised by how the single act of doing this as an eng manager or product manager makes incredible waves:
Send an email explaining what your team did the past 1-2 weeks, what your plans are for the next period, blockers & lessons learned.
Every. Single. Time.
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Something you’ve probably heard if you are part of a team is concerns around focus:
🙅🏻♀️ “we’re working on too many things”
😵💫 “priorities change quickly”
🙄 “we forget about things that were supposedly important a quarter ago”
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claire vo 🖤twitter.comAt the end of meetings, recap each action item and who owns it. Signals the importance of action items and gives people the room to make any corrections to them. Everybody knows this, but few do it. Leaders who build the confidence & discipline to do it appear 20% more competent.
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Teams obsess about company strategy, about data, and about frameworks for decision-making. But I’ve found that for most operational decisions
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