<story><title>You&apos;re barely managing</title><url>https://barely-managing.bearblog.dev/youre-barely-managing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thaumaturgy</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;How many managers do you know who studied to be managers of people?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;I mean more than a couple of one-day courses; I mean someone who studied to be a manager the way someone studied to be a software engineer or doctor.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;I personally don’t know anyone, and while those degrees definitely exist, it’s got me wondering: of the total managers in the world, how many of them have those qualifications? Is it even 1%?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;This series will provide my personal guidance on both how to be a manager and how to do the job of managing people.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;You do not need to read this entire thing A-Z like a tome, but instead I encourage you to casually work through the core articles (they will be highlighted) and then jump around to any others that catch your interest.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is incredibly frustrating. I have read &lt;i&gt;countless&lt;/i&gt; peoples&amp;#x27; opinions on management, with perspectives ranging from analytical measurement to pop-psy, but none of them has offered me, in the end, more credibility as a manager.&lt;p&gt;According to the opening statement here, none of that even counts as &amp;quot;study&amp;quot;, and the solution it offers is ... reading this blog. Casually.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s self-selecting for an audience of people who have already read lots of blogs about management, telling them that reading blogs doesn&amp;#x27;t count, and then offering another blog to read.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>angarg12</author><text>The vast majority of literature in management (definitely in the tech sector) is essentially a long form opinion of a single person.&lt;p&gt;I personally only started to take more seriously the writing of people who a) have been managing for a long while successfully, and b) regularly sync up with other managers so that their pieces aren&amp;#x27;t a sample size of 1.</text></comment>
<story><title>You&apos;re barely managing</title><url>https://barely-managing.bearblog.dev/youre-barely-managing/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thaumaturgy</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;How many managers do you know who studied to be managers of people?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;I mean more than a couple of one-day courses; I mean someone who studied to be a manager the way someone studied to be a software engineer or doctor.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;I personally don’t know anyone, and while those degrees definitely exist, it’s got me wondering: of the total managers in the world, how many of them have those qualifications? Is it even 1%?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;...&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;This series will provide my personal guidance on both how to be a manager and how to do the job of managing people.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;You do not need to read this entire thing A-Z like a tome, but instead I encourage you to casually work through the core articles (they will be highlighted) and then jump around to any others that catch your interest.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is incredibly frustrating. I have read &lt;i&gt;countless&lt;/i&gt; peoples&amp;#x27; opinions on management, with perspectives ranging from analytical measurement to pop-psy, but none of them has offered me, in the end, more credibility as a manager.&lt;p&gt;According to the opening statement here, none of that even counts as &amp;quot;study&amp;quot;, and the solution it offers is ... reading this blog. Casually.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s self-selecting for an audience of people who have already read lots of blogs about management, telling them that reading blogs doesn&amp;#x27;t count, and then offering another blog to read.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PH95VuimJjqBqy</author><text>management is a lifetime of experience and they themselves often don&amp;#x27;t entirely understand what they&amp;#x27;re doing.&lt;p&gt;My favorite manager of all time just left me alone and believed everything I told him when communicating back to the business.  It was never clear to me if that was on purpose (he trusted me) or if he was just a lazy ass.&lt;p&gt;And I don&amp;#x27;t care, I loved working for that man.  But if you were to ask him to lay out what makes him such a great manager he&amp;#x27;d never be able to do it.&lt;p&gt;These types of bloggers are exactly the people you don&amp;#x27;t want to be taking management advice from, they have an ulterior motive other than being great managers.  They want to *sound* like great managers, not actually be great managers.</text></comment>