Every Good Manager Will...

This week Michael Lopp (VP Engineering @ Slack) posted a summary of Tweets responding to the question "Regardless of seniority every good manager will...".

I took that list and tried to correlate the responses into several buckets. I used Trello to visualize this.

https://trello.com/b/Wr78Mx6k/good-managers

I came up with five buckets:

1. Compassion/Empathy - Feel like a human and realize others feel too.
2. Give/Take Feedback - Listen to others, tell them what's going right & wrong, and do the same for yourself.
3. Filter/Map/Reduce - Take in the world above and turn it into smaller things that are important for your people to know.
4. Unblock - Don't be an obstacle for your people to succeed - and help remove obstacles from their paths.
5. Trust - Everyone is an adult and was hired for a reason - trust them in their decisions and make sure to gain your people's trust.