Ask HN: Managing people smarter than you

Post by raygelogic » Sun, Jun 19, 2022, 3:37 AM UTC

Optimal_Persona wrote: post #9

Supervisees will always be somewhere on a continuum from "low experience/confidence, need lots of care and guidance" to "10x takes care of everything". As a supervisor I find that recognizing and acknowledging (directly) to the high performers that: - I'm aware of their skills, accomplishments & impact, and - I see my job as shielding them from bullshit and giving them enough slack to organize their own time & workfl…

mccartney wrote most of the great ones though ;-)

but, the beatles worked because they didn't have such big egos, at least with each other.

I really do care about making the team successful, way more than my own contributions. it'll take time to let go of the BS in my subconciousness.

Post by pedrofornaza » Mon, Jun 20, 2022, 2:38 PM UTC

raygelogic wrote: post #20

pedrofornaza wrote: post #8

The fact that you are here, asking about how to do better is already a very good sign. Congrats. You may feel like not adding much value because you may be measuring yourself by the wrong metric. If you are / was a software developer, its kinda easy to see your contribution, you just pull the git log. When you are leading, its way harder to notice. Thats the jump to the soft skills. I like to think soft skills are ca…

I think the state of things is pretty good overall. most of my anxiety comes from this fear that I'm not gonna be an owner of what we've built if they're the one making all the decisions. it's silly, but letting go of that isn't easy. 'preciate the thoughts.

Been there, done that. For me it was mostly measuring me with the wrong metric. We've been taught the whole career about deliverables, etc. When you become a manager, the metric is different.

I always think im doing a hell of a job if my team can just focus, get shit done and leave happy on the end of the day.

The best managers seems invisible and looks like they aren't doing shit.

Cheers bro, just keep improving and its gonna be ok.

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