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Manage Your People with Care
In an async-first culture, the role of a manager is key. If the company is the mothership, the manager is the employee’s bridge to it. As a manager, you’re the individual who knows the most about your people, their skills, their abilities and strengths, their personalities, and their aspirations. Each of us needs a manager who leads with care.
As counterintuitive as it may seem, a human connection is essential to work effectively in an async-first culture. Managers own a critical part of nurturing these human connections.
Corrections in the Right Direction
In the tech industry the word manager is rather unpopular. Companies go to extreme lengths to say they’re “flat” or that they have “no managers.” They sometimes ...
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