and well-
trained instincts aren’t
doing you many favors.
Your good intentions,
Bad news.
prior training,
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A cautionary tale full
of hard-earned advice.
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lopp / calibrate /
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Disclaimer:
A worst case scenario
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1: “I can do it.I’m the Boss.”
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First,
you sign-up for
all the things.
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Your first
failure mode.
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Your job isn’t to
get things done, it’s to
get things done at scale.
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2: “I can do it all myself. I’m
in control because I’m the Boss.”
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The ineptitude
of fake delegation.
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First,
they tell you.
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“We didn’t understand that
this portion of the project
was more important, so we
started over here which, in
hindsight, was clearly the
wrong place to start.”
Them
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You think “It’s obviously the wrong
place to start. If I were
running this project, we
wouldn’t be in this
situation.”
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You “I can do it all myself. I
am in control because
I’m the Boss.”
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You “Go figure it out…
or else.”
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Your job
is to aggressively
delegate.
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So,
they fail.
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Opinions
become facts.
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Congratulations!
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3: “This is not me.”
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Management
is not a promotion.
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Management
is
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The Death Spiral
is not real.
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Let others change your mind.
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Let others change your mind.
Augment your obvious and non-obvious
weaknesses with a diverse team.
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Let others change your mind.
Augment your obvious and non-obvious
weaknesses with a diverse team.
Delegate more than is comfortable.