Each manager, good or bad, is going to have a glaring deficiency. I'm a fan of pride; I want you to sell yourself in a interview, but if you suggest that you're flawless, all I'm thinking is that your flaws are so big that you can't talk about them or you have no clue what they are.
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Ed: Day #4 of the Deconstructing Managers week. I was waiting to when we got the the next steps portion of the conversation where I'd pull up the meeting notes from the previous two meetings and carefully point out these were the same next steps as THE LAST TWO MEETINGS.
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Of all the questions in this piece, understanding your manager's place in the political food-chain is the trickiest because you're often not in the meetings where he is interacting with his superiors. Next: What to do when your manager loses his shit and the big finish.
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This means your boss has been staring at you for the past couple of weeks in 1:1s and ignoring everything you say because he's trying to figure out how to layoff half of his staff. It might not be a skill set he has, but he's never going to stop trying because he knows where he wants to go.
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There is no good micromanagement approach because WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND would want to spent their day managing the minutiae of SOMEONE ELSE'S job. Yes, the new Director didn't trust me, but, more importantly, he didn't trust me to be what I'm actually good at, which is a "Osmosis Hallway Guy".
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Every six months I rewrite this list on a small yellow sticky to remind myself who these people are while also thinking if there are any new additions to the list. I'm saving those six names for the day when The Great Idea finally shows up and I start dialing for Electrons.
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It's not that I believe Joe isn't a decent human being... he's just on the other side of the planet and I don't know shit about cricket and he knows less about ice hockey, so why are we doing this dance? If we have to outsource something, let's work on outsourcing that.
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Combine that with the fact that no one is speaking English, there are two toilets in the bathroom, and I have no idea what time it is and you can begin to understand why I'm in such a foul mood. Back to the kitchen, where I pour hot water into my French press and dig up my favorite ceramic cup.
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Again, like Lost, what was terrific television has got a little confusing as we head towards the season finale. Netflix did an amazingly thing and got their hands on the series premiere of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and I'm happy to say Aaron Sorkin delivers again.
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The week before WWDC is a good time to remember that it won't always be like this. Take a deep breath and...
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