This right here is the juice. Generic management advice is like relationship advice. Be honest, care about the other person, respect the other person and so on.

This right here is the juice. Generic management advice is like relationship advice. Be honest, care about the other person, respect the other person and so on. But anyone that's been in a relationship knows it's way more about breathing deep twice when you see the dishes not clean or whatever annoys you than the rest of it. Obviously you need to try and be honest, but good outcomes are created first and foremost from adequately dealing with daily situations in a balanced manner. There's no playbook for being a good manager the same way there's no playbook for being a good partner or a good parent. The playbook would have to be too generic or too specific and end up being mostly useless. Best you can get is someone who genuinely tries to improve and listens to you because they seem to care about you. If that takes the form of "how was your weekend" in the beginning of a 1-1 or having your back in a compensation review, that all depends on the situations.