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Nov 2022
58m 23s

What Do Managers of Managers Do? (The Cr...

Kim Scott, Jason Rosoff & Amy Sandler
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Does anyone actually want to be a manager of managers? And if so, what do these people actually do? On this episode of the Radical Candor podcast Kim, Jason and Amy discuss strategies for being an effective manager of managers. If you're managing people who manage other people, then you're managing managers. Whereas if you're managing individual contributors ... Show More
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