As a manager myself, I'm going to post this evergreen I keep continuously revisiting every half a year. It's extremely concise while complete on every aspect I

As a manager myself, I'm going to post this evergreen I keep continuously revisiting every half a year. It's extremely concise while complete on every aspect I would have loved in a manager while being an employee. That's why it's my gold standard and the one thing I'm handing out to every new manager at our company. https://www.defmacro.org/2014/10/03/engman.html https://www.defmacro.org/2014/10/03/engman.html Relevant HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14381264 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14381264 The one thing I'd add on top of it from my last 5 years in CTO experience is: - Communicate context as high level and as complete as possible. If you say "I want that button in red" when you really mean "I want to increase sign-ups on this landing page", then what you REALLY mean and want to communicate is that you want as many customers as possible to find your valuable product. Letting the team jump in with own ideas, even if you think you already have the best solution will make them grow in responsibility, accountability and self-confidence. Likewise, ideas like a company/team "Mission" and "Strategy" are 90% used in bullshit contexts, but articulated correctly and repetitively, they make sure people run into the right direction, even if you don't follow every of their moves.