The Engineering Manager

This article is part of a series on managing managers. Myself and Rebecca are sitting down to dinner. She asks me a question. “Were you doing lots of one-to-ones today?” “Yeah, why’d you ask?” “Do you realize that you pretty much said the same thing over and over again, all day?” “Huh. I had no idea. No wonder I feel so tired…” Do you ever feel like you’re repeating yourself? You probably are. Whether you’re […]

This article is part of a series on managing managers. How many of your one-to-ones with your team end up being status updates? How about your one-to-ones with your own manager? And just how boring are they? I know, right? Snore. Although this article is focused on correcting a common pattern of behavior that you can fall into when managing managers, it’s really applicable to all managers at any level of an organization. However, when […]