Managing managers

Once you’ve mastered running one team, you may have the opportunity to progress further up the management career track. Here’s a collection of articles focused around making the leap to managing managers, and what really goes on in that strange world of fancy job titles.

I’m currently working on a new book covering this area exclusively. More details will become available in early 2024.

  1. The path to managing managers
  2. VP, Director, what?
  3. Managing through interfaces
  4. Skip-level meetings
  5. Forming the unicorn
  6. Bucketing your time
  7. Don’t make yourself redundant
  8. Delegation creates career progression
  9. Less status updates, more coaching
  10. If you’re repeating yourself, debug it
  11. Growth in a downturn: progressing when you can’t progress