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How to be a Manager – A step-by-step guide to leading a team

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Post by voska » Tue, Jun 05, 2018, 2:48 PM UTC

How to be a Manager – A step-by-step guide to leading a team
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Re: How to be a Manager – A step-by-step guide to leading a team

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Post by gregskloot » Tue, Jun 05, 2018, 4:41 PM UTC

Thanks for sharing! I wrote this and would definitely appreciate everyone's feedback.

Re: How to be a Manager – A step-by-step guide to leading a team

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Post by solarkraft » Tue, Jun 05, 2018, 5:14 PM UTC

gregskloot wrote: post #2

Thanks for sharing! I wrote this and would definitely appreciate everyone's feedback.

Medially great. Good information. Nice to read. Except for the in-page popup (reported to Mozilla).

Re: How to be a Manager – A step-by-step guide to leading a team

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Post by opmac » Tue, Jun 05, 2018, 5:16 PM UTC

gregskloot wrote: post #2

Thanks for sharing! I wrote this and would definitely appreciate everyone's feedback.

This was a fun and informative read. Thanks :)

Re: How to be a Manager – A step-by-step guide to leading a team

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Post by gregskloot » Tue, Jun 05, 2018, 5:23 PM UTC

opmac wrote: post #4

gregskloot wrote: post #2

Thanks for sharing! I wrote this and would definitely appreciate everyone's feedback.

This was a fun and informative read. Thanks :)

Glad to hear it!

Re: How to be a Manager – A step-by-step guide to leading a team

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Post by marcus_holmes » Tue, Jun 05, 2018, 5:24 PM UTC

Great for building a brand new team. Not so great for assuming leadership of an existing team/business.

Also, very American. I just stopped being CEO of a SE Asian business, and this just doesn't apply globally. There are culture differences that make enormous differences in leadership styles and outcomes.

Re: How to be a Manager – A step-by-step guide to leading a team

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Post by gregskloot » Tue, Jun 05, 2018, 5:25 PM UTC

solarkraft wrote: post #3

gregskloot wrote: post #2

Thanks for sharing! I wrote this and would definitely appreciate everyone's feedback.

Medially great. Good information. Nice to read. Except for the in-page popup (reported to Mozilla).

Got it, glad you overall liked the information and thanks for the UI feedback!

Re: How to be a Manager – A step-by-step guide to leading a team

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Post by CrypticOne274 » Tue, Jun 05, 2018, 5:26 PM UTC

Great post. Upvoted.

Re: How to be a Manager – A step-by-step guide to leading a team

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Post by crsv » Tue, Jun 05, 2018, 5:28 PM UTC

This isn't a guide on how to be a leader, this is a guide for building version 0 of a team and trivializes a great deal of the complexity that goes in to being an effective leader.

It's a great content marketing piece though, and at first glance, far outstrips the value of the tool they're marketing to - but this is still meant to drive people to a SaaS product.

Re: How to be a Manager – A step-by-step guide to leading a team

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Post by gregskloot » Tue, Jun 05, 2018, 5:29 PM UTC

marcus_holmes wrote: post #6

Great for building a brand new team. Not so great for assuming leadership of an existing team/business. Also, very American. I just stopped being CEO of a SE Asian business, and this just doesn't apply globally. There are culture differences that make enormous differences in leadership styles and outcomes.

That's a very fair point. My leadership experience is in the U.S. so totally makes sense that it came out from that angle.

For assuming leadership of an existing team, I think it depends on the state of the team. Often the teams I have inherited needed a lot of work. There wasn't a defined culture or great communication processes, so I found a lot of it still applied.

In my last business, I needed to help re-build / re-calibrate several functional teams (including our leadership team), and a lot of this stuff definitely applied.