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This comment makes me realize that I've experienced both sides of this coin now. I've had the manager that asked for daily email updates. And I've worked in a g

This comment makes me realize that I've experienced both sides of this coin now. I've had the manager that asked for daily email updates. And I've worked in a grind silo until I was finished. There is a balance between them. I think where you draw that line largely depends on the team. An effective manager navigates a team by helping to unblock and de-risk efforts. It's hard for a manager to do that with zero information.

mjayhn 6y ago
Yeah I've finally gotten enough experience to feel like I've run the gamut of management styles and the best advice I can give is that managers need to explicitly ask questions to some people and genuinely work to improve their performance. Some people (especially new or those who think they're under-performing) won't want to rock the boat at all and will hold their frustrations with things like I mentioned in forever. I used to be very bad at that. Now I'm pretty firebrand for employees to be treated right as I've finally been to companies that I felt did so (then back to companies that don't) so I recognize what I consider abusive places/mgmt pretty quickly.