Managing yourself first — time, priorities, decisions, delegation — then managing people: expectations, feedback, 1:1s, accountability and conflict. Plus the systems that hold it together.
Your job changes as you grow
Lessons
Managing yourself first — Before you manage anyone, you have to manage the only resource that is genuinely fixed: your own attention. (12 min)
Delegation — Handing over an outcome with the authority to decide how. Handing over tasks while keeping every decision is just queueing. (12 min)
Setting expectations — Most performance problems are expectation problems. People rarely fail at a job they clearly understood. (10 min)
Running 1:1s — Their meeting, not your status update. The moment it becomes a progress report it stops surfacing anything useful. (10 min)
Giving feedback — Specific, soon, and about the effect. Vague or delayed feedback is unkind, whatever it feels like at the time. (10 min)
OKRs and KPIs — KPIs are the dials you watch. OKRs are what you are trying to change this quarter. Confusing them turns planning into reporting. (12 min)
Your job changes as you grow — The thing you were good at stops being your job. Founders who do not notice become the bottleneck they built. (10 min)