Conversation

1. Management by conferences 2. Management by 1:1 meeting 3. Management by walking around 4. Management by slide deck 5. Management by whitepaper 6. Management by project 7. Management by objectives 8. Management by I/O queue 9. Management by firefight 10. Management by absence
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I have spent an unreasonable amount of my life watching people manage. There’s no perfect system but it’s nice to watch somebody do well with a style they’re naturally gifted at. And nothing more cringe than watching someone fail at a style that doesn’t suit them.
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Pick 2 of 3 for work: meaningful, alive, scrutable. Any kind of management depends on making work more scrutable, which involves sacrificing some meaning, aliveness, or both.
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