Job of a Manager
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Dima and Slava build a conceptual triangle to look at a manager’s role and generally do their best to highlight different facets of the job managers are expected to do.
- Other related episodes
- On leadership
- On business processes
- Definitions
- PMI: “Management is the process of leading a team to achieve goals within given constraints.”
- Harvard Business School: “Managers are responsible for setting strategy, executing plans, allocating resources, and leading people to achieve organizational objectives.”
- Slava’s: “A manager does stuff to achieve things.”
- Team – Manager – Company triangle
- Manager as the team–company interface
- Team is the smallest unit that can carry the culture
- Manager’s work at different levels of company structure
- Line manager: team of individual contributors
- Middle manager: team of managers
- Executive manager: team of managers of managers
- Coaching style management, again
