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If you're a middle manager, you get this advantage of a junior person who's desperate to prove themselves, who is willing to work really hard, but isn't very good, but will be. And they write deal memos over and over again, and they get yelled at or given nice feedback, and eventually they learn how to write a deal memo. And that's how we teach people. You don't have to be good at managing for them to learn. Ideally, you're good at teaching, but you don't have to be. But that's all broken down.

— The Prof G Pod
2w ago

If you are a boss and people get more out of working for you than maybe you get out of them or you pay them above market, that's a win. That's a victory. If you're a better spouse to your — if it is really hard for your spouse to figure out ways to be as good to you as you are to them, that's a win. That's the whole [ __ ] shooting match.

2mo ago

A people not used to being forced to do things will not be drove. They must be led. And he is a leader and um in the army that he's commanding the army we have today actually that's a fairly critical insight that he's got and a recognition that this is the essence of leadership.

3mo ago

When we look at the gap, what we recognize is a lot of the C-suite have the ability to shape the transformation or the change. And they have a lot to gain from it typically. So there's sort of built-in incentive for them to be excited about change and historically they've usually done well in change. That's how they've gotten to where they have. When you look at sort of the employee base, they have a lot less agency in it. So they aren't necessarily deciding on the change or part of the process. They're sort of the receivers of it. And anytime we don't have agency then we start to sort of buy in less to the change.

5mo ago

Management is an ability to soften the chaos created by leaders. The notion that your AI is going to bring everybody in and they're not going to need to have contact with anybody else and the AI will manage them, tell them what to do, and at the end of the year give them their performance review and a bonus. Even if that was possible, which I don't think it is, it's a nihilistic, [ __ ] up vision of the world.

5mo ago

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