What Do Managers of Managers Do? (The Crank Call From Kim) 4 | 16
Does anyone actually want to be a manager of managers? And if so, what do these people actually do? On this episode of the Radical Candor podcast...
In this episode of the Radical Candor podcast Kim and Jason answer listener questions and share their experiences about being a boss who's younger than their direct reports and having their wings clipped by an absentee manager who isn't invested in their success. They also agree that chair-throwing management styles aren't an effective way to get things done (as Kim learned when she threw her bike helmet at a window when dealing with a bad boss at a former job). While command-and-control workplaces make for great fiction (and podcast stories), they're awful in real life. Press play for actionable advice on how to move from command and control to collaboration.
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A listener says: I'm a young-ish (32) director who has been assigned two older than me (mid-50s) direct reports. I respect and appreciate their tenure and experience, and want to express that without sounding patronizing. I also want to make sure there's no bad blood in terms of age that I'm much younger.
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At the moment I’m on a steep growth trajectory with an absentee manager. My colleagues appear to be on a more gradual trajectory and are getting upset by my productivity. My manager is asking me to be less productive to make them feel better! I find this profoundly unfair but I don’t know how to approach it. I realize the disruption and fear that COVID 19 is causing could be influencing people’s behavior but in this case, I think it just brought our different trajectories into sharp focus.
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