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 people will leave your team.

When?

When you hide things from team, and present them as a surprise and get them out without any plans; you fail. You fail as a leader when you don’t have context to communicate with clarity.

You fail when you don’t have notes, only thoughts & perceptions without any data. You fail when you don’t document the truth. You fail when you’re influenced. You fail when you are in meetings 6 hours a day but still fail to meet with your teammates for 1:1s. You fail to do your own job as a manager.

Trust me, you will fail because you aren’t honest and you didn’t care about the task at hand. At last, you didn’t manage well because you didn’t learn how to be a good manager.