M2: Managing Managers
Managing managers is MUCH harder than just managing a team -- it's not just you figuring out what works for you. You have to help others figure out what works for them. So you must understand leadership at a 10x level.
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M2 Ep 011 - Inbox Dumpster Fire (opens the original)
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If your team keeps filling your inbox with questions, updates, and requests for decisions, the problem may start before anyone writes an email. Jim worked with an executive who was spending much of her day responding to her team. She wanted to be available and helpful, but her own work kept getting pushed aside. When they reviewed her inbox together, they found capable people asking for things they needed to move forward: a decision, a priority, more context, or help with a blocker. In this epis
M2 Ep 010 - Creating Accountability (opens the original)
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You manage managers. Almost nothing you're accountable for gets done by your own hands -- it gets done because you asked someone, and they agreed. And yet the meeting ends with everyone nodding, and a week later the work hasn't moved. It's as if the meeting never happened. In this episode of M2: Managing Managers, Thomas Cox and Jim Prinzing name that pattern -- meeting amnesia -- and then show you the structure hiding underneath it. The manager who says yes and doesn't deliver looks like they h
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