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If you are low-EQ, everyone you work closely with must know … because most of these people will come into any relationship with the expectation that you are adept at reading non-verbal cues. If they know you cannot read their faces (reading faces is highly correlated with EQ), they will work with you to compensate in other ways.
Auren Hoffman • A Manual For The Low-EQ CEO
underdelegation causes senior people to neglect high-value tasks that are of critical importance to the future success of the firm.
David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
many practice groups continue to maintain expertise-based approaches to running their affairs when their marketplace is probably closer to the efficiency stage.
David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
Managing Someone Who Is Spread Too Thin
Gretchen Anderson • Mastering Collaboration: Make Working Together Less Painful and More Productive
It’s also important to think about what you’re well-suited for. This is hard to do with pure introspection; ideally you can ask a mentor or some people you’ve worked with what you’re particularly good at. I’ve come to believe that founder/company fit is as important as product/market fit.
blog.samaltman.com • Idea Generation
Good management starts by defining what outputs someone needs to produce.