Technical excellence and people leadership are different jobs. Neither prepares you for the other.
Six predictable stages. The damage happens in the handoffs between them.
If the head of your most critical function resigned tomorrow: confidence or panic?
At five people it happens on its own. Nobody notices the moment it stops.
Nine times out of ten the manager has not worked out why yet. The cause changes everything after it.
It works where taking part is a choice, and fails where the stakes are high.
The phrase usually means answering Slack at 11pm. The real thing is designed.
What it is genuinely good at, what it should never decide, and where the line sits.
One page that shows what your team can do, and what it cannot do yet.
Excel is a good tool right up to the point where it quietly becomes the job.
