Metadata
- Author: mipsytipsy
- Full Title:: Helicopter Management and Other Mistakes
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: Engineering Management,
- URL:: https://charity.wtf/2023/06/19/helicopter-management/
- Finished date:: 2024-03-19
Highlights
Rookie Mistake #1: Only Managing Down (View Highlight)
It is YOUR job to make sure your team isn’t overcommitted. (View Highlight)
Managing up. Your manager relies on you to provide enough visibility into your team that they can (at minimum) make good decisions where your team is involved, and help head off any problems or conflicts before they escalate. (View Highlight)
What would YOU do if you had to choose between a good, reliable manager who gets the job done for the org and isn’t particularly beloved by their reports (she’s not awful, the team thinks she’s “fine”), vs a manager who is beloved by their reports and cares about their career growth deeply, but is weak at everything else? What will manager #2 cost the rest of the org, and who will bear those costs? (View Highlight)