CHAPTER2
Managers Are Not Evil
"What, exactly, do you do?"
Slack.
Jawed.
Amazement.
This question is coming from someone I trust. A trusted employee who has been working in my group at the startup for years. This guy always tells me the straight dope and now he's asking me what I do with my day because he honestly does not know.
Let's recap my day. I got to work just after 8 a.m. After my usual 30 minutes of scrubbing and answering e-mail, I did a quick check of tech news, taking a quick pulse of the planet, and then it's off to my first meeting. It's my boss's staff and it runs for almost two hours as usual. After that meeting, I spend 30 minutes digesting notes from that meeting into actual tasks for myself and the team while also tidying ...
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