How to manage people

How?

As a manager or head of anything, your job is to empower others. Your job is to communicate with clarity. Your job is to resolve conflict for results. Your job is to have or make time for your team. Your job is to represent your team as a leader. You’re a leader and as a leader you practice empathy to lead by example.

If you only make business decisions, business won’t work out in long term because human in your team are more valuable. Respect others.

Why?

You fail as a leader when you don’t care. You plan big but you don’t care about the direction. When you don’t regularly check-in, you lost touch with the execution plan. You fail your team because you don’t ask good questions.

After saying “I trust you”, and then you don’t trust the execution. You travel a lot but don’t make time for important tasks & strategies.

You just don’t support your team because you’re so busy without focus.

You fail because you didn’t do anything to resolve the conflict. And I know it will hunt you because of technical debt you allowed to happen. Bad management doesn’t make you a great manager, and…