Management & Leadership
sari and
Management & Leadership
Being a great manager is easy.
All you have to do is be vulnerable but unflappable, care about people but put the business first, balance competing interests of your team and your boss, obsess over numbers but be a great storyteller, empower your team but give clear direction…
profile_phototwitter.comIf you work on anything worthwhile, sooner or later people will care about it and will want you to send progress updates. These could be quarterly investor updates, weekly updates to your boss, emails to adjacent teams, etc. Here are tips on how to do this well.
Understand your role, and with each update add to the body of evidence that you’re a
One of my favorite sayings is "a dog with two owners dies of hunger." Singular accountability is powerful.
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The five principles of prompting I developed work equally well as management techniques for humans:
- Give direction. Describe the desired style in detail, or reference a relevant persona . Whether you’re briefing Claude or a junior designer, “match the energy of Apple’s product pages—minimal, confident, lots of whitespace” is a much better