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Also not a blog, but I run a free mentoring service for managers. Mostly meet with folks from HN and Twitter, and I do daily sessions. https://freemanagermento
by wjossey 7y ago
Also not a blog, but I run a free mentoring service for managers. Mostly meet with folks from HN and Twitter, and I do daily sessions.
https://freemanagermentors.com https://freemanagermentors.com
While there are tons of great resources out there, one thing to keep in mind is that general advice is often bad advice, when it comes to teams and people management. Be careful about over-correcting for certain advice that on the surface seems helpful, but misapplied to the wrong context is detrimental.
One example is that a lot of the people I talk to have been attempting to apply Radical Candor to their culture, with fairly mixed results. There's a lot to love about the intent of RC, as an example, but misapplied to the wrong personality types can be disastrous, demoralizing, and counterproductive to the receiver.
I'd highly recommend as you try to level up any management skills, you talk to someone who has attempted to put something into practice and get a sense for the failure modes. This might help you adapt it to your culture and team so that the downsides are mitigated and the upsides are still there.
Hope that's helpful!
- wjossey 7y agoThe response to this has been really wonderful, and my calendar is now almost full all the way out for the next four weeks. If you have something urgent you'd like to discuss, please email me directly. My email is in my profile. If I can make time for a quick call, I will. Otherwise, I'll do my best to respond quickly over email, or refer you to another mentor that has offered up their time in the event I get overload (which isn't always the case but is the case at the moment courtesy of the HN hug).