Get Lighthouse

JULY 20, 2022

If your company has a group of new managers , then it's very likely many of them are thinking the above. Whether you were left to flounder when you started out as a manager or you had some great help, there's a lot you can do to help them succeed as a senior leader. One of the best ways is to gift them a great book (or a few).

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Michael McKinney

MARCH 4, 2024

Even more alarming, almost every new business it launched failed: e-books, mobile phones, search engines, music; it was one dramatic dud after another. The turnaround he engineered was nothing short of remarkable. Not only was the U.S. Inside the company, morale was at an all-time low. For Microsoft, the future looked bleak.

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Lolly Daskal

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

However, far too many new managers get so caught up in the day-to-day demands of their role that they fail to lay the necessary groundwork for long-term success. Engineer “Accidental” Interactions As you transition into a leadership role, it can be easy to become siloed in your office or behind video calls.

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Get Lighthouse

OCTOBER 5, 2022

In their "The State of the American Manager” study, Gallup found that half (50%) of all Americans have left a job to "get away from their manager at some point in their career.”. We've said it before, but it begs repeating: employees leave managers, not companies. And a bad manager can make employees leave in waves.

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AUGUST 11, 2022

Too often, managers take their people for granted. So what's a manager to do? Today, we answer the most common questions we've heard over and over as we've helped managers lay out career development plans for their team members using Lighthouse. What do I do for manager career development? Yet, she was giving notice.

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Get Lighthouse

MAY 20, 2022

If you've ever had a frustrating boss, you know how true it is: People leave managers , not companies. … You play a part in managing the relationship between you and your manager. Put another way, this is what it means to manage up. That's why learning to manage up is such a vital skill.

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Lolly Daskal

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Middle Manager: The traditional hierarchical management structure is giving way to more agile, decentralized models. Advances in communication technology and the growing emphasis on employee empowerment are reducing the need for middle management roles. They are poised to become obsolete in the coming years.

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Get Lighthouse

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

"I'm pretty confident in my ability to be a good manager, but a lot of it is instinct.I'm not sure I can teach that to others.". Many of the senior leaders I've spoken to find that they face a whole new set of challenges when they become a manager of managers. How to make other managers successful, too.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Being a new manager can be an exciting, and stressful, opportunity. It's important that you promote people looking to be a manager for the right reasons , and that they have the right skills and mindset. Without help, a new manager is set up to flounder and fail. How to Help a New Manager Succeed from Day 1.

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Michael McKinney

MAY 4, 2023

Former NASA engineer-project manager and launch director at SpaceX John Muratore on the importance of purpose: “Tom Holloway, a very famous Program Manager, and head of Flight Directors for a long time, told me something very interesting. He said, ‘People ask us what our greatest resource is, and we always say, ‘our people.’

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Ed Batista

MARCH 19, 2023

As we navigate the world around us, we automatically craft a series of explanatory narratives that help us make sense of our surroundings and predict what will happen next, a process I've called "the narrative engine." [2] Manage Your Emotions Emotions, both positive and negative, are at the root of your inability to stop working.

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Peter Winick

MAY 27, 2024

Bill and Clemence explore her career transition from supply chain engineering to big data and social media, driven by her curiosity about the future impact of collective intelligence and connection data on human behavior and business. You know, growing up, having almost everybody in my family is an engineer. So interesting.

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Get Lighthouse

JULY 22, 2022

One on one meetings are a cornerstone to an effective manager <-> team member relationship, from small startups to giant companies. It's why Andy Grove , the legendary founder of Intel and author of High Output Management , said this about one on ones: Over the past several years, I've spoken to thousands of managers.

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AUGUST 30, 2022

What can I do to avoid unwanted surprises with my manager? And: What are the best approaches to managing up well? Unfortunately, despite these being common challenges, there's not a lot written on the subject of managing up. Expert Advice for Managing Up at Work. How to start on the right foot managing up.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

"I manage one way; it either works for them or they probably won't be working for me very long.". "I On one end, a manager is being way too rigid in their approach, which causes you to have an non-diverse team that may be afraid to be creative around you if it doesn't fit "your way." Priority management. 3) Priority management.

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Lolly Daskal

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Engineer “Collision Spaces” The most innovative leaders deliberately engineer “collision spaces” that bring adversaries together in unexpected ways. They demonstrate a profound ability to step into the shoes of all parties involved.

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Get Lighthouse

AUGUST 17, 2023

When you start managing a new team, there's a lot of uncertainty: What do they think of you? How was their last manager? As a manager, you need a strong relationship with your team, which starts with what you do on day 1. 2) What have your past managers done that you'd like me to also do or not do?

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15Five

DECEMBER 7, 2023

But too many leaders aren’t actually serving their people — they’re managing job descriptions. They’re thinking about how best to manage salespeople, engineers, and HR specialists, instead of considering Sandra, Bryan, and Mohinder, the individuals. That’s the core of managing people versus managing roles.

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Help Scout Leadership

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

No codebase is perfect, and even the best engineers can’t predict with 100% certainty what will happen with each new release. Answering each of these questions will greatly improve your understanding of any bug and make it much easier for you to articulate it to a product manager or engineer. Bugs are inevitable.

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Get Lighthouse

AUGUST 19, 2022

"The difference between mere management and leadership is communication." - Winston Churchill. Table of Contents: Questions to Build Rapport Questions to Get Manager Feedback Questions to Get Team Feedback Questions to Give Praise Questions to Ask in a Crisis Questions to Ask Every Time. [

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JANUARY 5, 2024

Are you managing your own team? Wondering how to advance past your team of individual contributors to leading a group of managers? Fortunately, the steps to get there are similar to the key things to become a manager. Fortunately, the steps to get there are similar to the key things to become a manager.

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Help Scout Leadership

JULY 17, 2024

Designers, product managers, QA specialists, and support team members all benefit from the ability to test. Learn how one engineer used a "Learn Something Day" to make testing more accessible to the broader Help Scout team. Testing code isn't just for developers! Read the full article

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High Scalability

APRIL 8, 2020

Gergely Orosz, an Engineering Manager on the Payments Experience Platform at Uber, in a tweet signaled a change in architectural direction: Macroservices. But we’ll get to that. Think what you want about Uber the company, but from a software perspective Uber has been a good citizen.

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AIHR

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

However, employees reported a culture of micro-management, poor communication, abrupt layoffs, and little care for their wellbeing. For example, Boeing’s consumer brand promises safety and sustainability while striving for engineering excellence. Where this is not the case, employees experience the employer brand as inauthentic.

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Get Lighthouse

JUNE 17, 2022

As a manager, what do you do? How can your manager help you develop and grow? Many of the reasons are beyond the control of you as a manager: Isolated Roles: Depending on the specialization, location, and skills required for a role, it can limit the options for advancement. If only it were that easy. You can do better.

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Alison Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

This post, Ask a Manager speed round , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. It’s part 2 of this year’s Ask a Manager speed round! I declined to apply for an open teapot engineering manager position at least three times at my current employer. Part 1 was last month.)

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NOVEMBER 27, 2024

. — In today’s edition, we take a look at new data about a pandemic-era problem, review a report on workforce trends, have a quick survey we’d love your help on, and take a look at one of my favorite phrases I use as a manager. With the blocker removed, the engineering team shipped more projects faster despite having 1 less engineer.

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AIHR

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Search engine optimization (SEO) may be a bit technical, but this guide will help to unpack what exactly SEO is and how you can use it to attract the right caliber of applicants. As your search engine rankings improve, your company will become more known and can build credibility with potential candidates. What is SEO?

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Chief Outsiders

JULY 22, 2022

A SaaS marketer must be part marketer, product manager, and engineer and understand their markets 100%. Even as macroeconomic headwinds begin to buffet the worldwide economy, there’s no better time than now to be a SaaS marketer. But there is a better way to be one.

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Ed Batista

JULY 4, 2022

The most common challenge is the employee who continues to perform at an adequate level and remains an asset to the company but whose growth isn't keeping pace with the organization around them: The capable individual contributor who's unable to manage, or the capable manager who's unable to "manage managers."

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15Five

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Enabling your managers with the tools and processes they need to be successful is one of the most effective ways to drive employee engagement, performance, and retention. And when you can also turn those managers into strategic HR champions, that’s when you’ll see true transformation in the organization.

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Help Scout Leadership

AUGUST 24, 2021

Knowledge base software is a tool that allows you to create, store, organize, manage, and share self-service content with an audience. Standalone knowledge base software is a dedicated tool that is solely meant for creating, maintaining, and managing a knowledge base. It’s basically an internal wiki plus a project management tool.

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Peter Winick

OCTOBER 30, 2023

While working at John Hopkins he began to find an astonishingly high failure rate in management theory – and he knew he could help. And so I started getting really interested in science and engineering, and that’s kind of where it all began. In other words, belief management is the missing piece. Bill Sherman More on that.

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Michael McKinney

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The club was conceived as a way to meet that need and to bridge silos that existed between the management and the engineering side of the campus.” A general prerequisite of most MIT entrepreneurial contests or accelerators, for instance, is that participants form mixed teams of scientists and engineers with management students.”.

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Alison Green

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

This post, future manager is a bigoted jerk, boss hasn’t paid me back, and more , was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. Is my future manager a bigoted jerk? We have a director who oversees three managers, each of whom oversees a group of employees. It’s five answers to five questions.

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Help Scout Leadership

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Ben Lueders, Co-founder and Lead Designer, explained their approach: “Our first project manager — my wife Megan — started this really great thing we still do called ‘The Monday Email.’ It becomes very easy for things to slip through the cracks if someone’s not actively managing it. It’s really a growth engine.”.

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Peter Winick

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

But when I talk about data governance, I’m talking about your strategy to manage the people, processes and tools that help you govern big data at scale. Your job is to come up with a strategy for how your organization is going to manage its data at a high level. You need data quality standards.

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