[hayst4ck]

Never managed, but I strongly recommend reading Extreme ownership. It's a very good book.

As someone who's been through a few managers. Please please give feedback, and not that yearly review stuff. Managers have a very hard time doing that, especially when it's needed. If you don't give people feedback, then they can't push back on the feedback (tell you things you don't know or don't know you don't know) or address it. The end result is a loop where they are stressed which harms their ability to work, and then you treat them with increasingly lower levels of respect, which stresses them out more, which makes them less able to function until you get into a situation where you soft fire them (move them to an unimportant team or project) or PIP them.

Also for the love of god, don't talk shit about any employees on any team. It will immediately be assumed that behavior is pervasive which will make a person question who is shit talking about them or if management respects them at all.

[thunky]

This is spot on.

In addition to giving feedback, I think it's also important to ask people for their opinions regularly. This gives the employee the sense that they are valued and that what they are doing matters. This is the fuel that great employees are powered by.

[throwaway23236]

+1 Great book if you are looking to be a leader. Other leadership books I would recommend are:

To Risk It All: Nine Conflicts and the Crucible of Decision

Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done

[serko]

Read it, great book

[anonreeeeplor]

This is good.