Leadership, team management and company culture from the real experience of managing people at a marketing agency. No LinkedIn motivational speeches — this is about the hard calls: layoffs, promotions that destroy talent, and what nobody tells you about managing teams when you’re also an individual contributor.
There’s a game I’ve been watching play out for too many months. A manager who hasn’t been able to make a tough call in three years suddenly discovers AI, reorganizes half the department in two weeks, and sells it as digital transformation. Raise your hand if you haven’t seen this at your company, or the […]
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You take your best developer, the one who solves what nobody else can, and sit them in a conference room to give feedback and manage conflicts between junior staff. Congratulations: you’ve just created an accidental manager. You’ve just lost your top performer. And on top of that, you haven’t gained a good leader either. An
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Let me start where it stings: your team’s trust isn’t built at the offsite with paintball and a three-course dinner. It isn’t built in that 8 a.m. Slack message either, the one with the little fire emoji and a motivational line recycled from LinkedIn. It’s built, or it’s wrecked, the day you have to let
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