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by factorymoo 1017 days ago
As a new (ish) manager, curious to hear more about your style and what has worked well for you for 25 years.
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Mostly, individual Respect for each of my employees, and the backbone to negotiate with, and feed back to, my superiors, when they tried to get me to be a bad manager.

I don't think my advice will be helpful, though. I have found that it is something that would probably get you fired, in today's companies. Even the people that work for you are completely indoctrinated in the Tech Industry Zeitgeist, and will refuse to work with you.

Look at some of the comments that I get, when I talk about it. Really nasty. People take it as a personal attack, when I talk about my own experience.

I've found that management is an intensely human vocation, and efforts to commoditize it, fall flat.