And as a (former) manager: when your reports are doing great work, make sure to publicly praise them, as well as give people opportunity to beat their own chest

And as a (former) manager: when your reports are doing great work, make sure to publicly praise them, as well as give people opportunity to beat their own chest and roar. Shipped a cool feature? Present a few slides at the weekly team meeting, explain why it's cool. This won't happen unless you encourage it and set aside the time. I don't see nearly enough of this, and I think it's a shame - it makes people feel good about what they do, feel that their work not a waste of time. It also engenders pride in good work and implicitly shines a light on poor performers. As far as telling people's managers about good work, that is helpful of course. But I feel like there's this misconception among non-managers that managers don't already know who's great and who's not. As a manager who pays any attention at all this is clear as a day most of the time.