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“One of the things that, you know, It comes into play a lot when managers are figuring out promotions and doing those things. It's like they'll sit in a room off on calibrations and, you know, with a bunch of people, and it makes it a lot easier when those peop…”

“What I find is that you're more like the vampire knocking on the door of someone you have to be invited in. You just can't walk through the threshold. And I think that no matter how senior the person that is the manager, you have to earn the right to be the pe…”

“In, you know, in a hundred years, when the archaeologists look back and they see tech in the sort of early years of tech, the first 3034 years, they'll say that the biggest surprise was how much we thought it was okay to not train managers.”

“You've got to police yourself because no one else will do it, because no matter how accessible. You think you are. Other people know that you're the boss. They're not gonna necessarily speak over you or challenge you directly.”

“I don't, I'm not going to pretend like if you're just great at your job quietly that you're going to get what you want, right? You're not just, if you're toiling in the background, doing a great job, getting results, if you have a great manager, maybe you'll b…”

“I think one of the really important things that all managers can do for their direct reports to show that they care is to have real meaningful career conversations where you talk about sort of their life story, sort of their past, whatever part of it they're c…”

“Doing product management is a product manager's job, but getting better at product management. It's the manager's job. It's the coach's job.”

“Lots of managers have great intentions to help their employees, but they get busy with their own lives, their own work, all the things they're focused on, and also their own career. The manager is often busy thinking about Their own needs. And so they just, th…”

“Managers often fall into the trap. They chose to become managers. So they assume one of two things about you. They either assume that you want to keep doing exactly what you're doing forever. Just maybe make a little more money. So you're an artist. You want t…”

“When you're trying to manage managers, you're really trying to live at the top of the pyramid. You are responsible, managers responsible for basically owning that pyramid for all of the areas that they operate, but they need to be able to live at the top of th…”

“And I think it's really important to get in the habit of pointing out what your people are doing well, as carefully as you need to prepare for pointing out what they need to improve.”

“For many introverts, we like to be able to process our thoughts before we articulate them. So you've now given Bob advance notice, and he has more time to pro, to do the processing before speaking.”

“And so it becomes this collaborative relationship much more so than this It's like adversarial. Like I'm trying to get you to give me a promotion and you're trying to get me to like work harder. Like it's, yeah, like that is not a very good vibe.”

“Your job is not to be one of those buffers. Your job is to preserve that intensity at its highest possible level and let the buffering happen somewhere else.”

“Your only goal as a manager, if you do nothing else, is clear roles and clear expectations. That's it.”

“Your manager clearly matters more than pretty much anything else when it comes to how you feel about work, protect that relationship, invest in that relationship, build up good communication lines with your manager, learn to manage up better.”