Tag: Communication
If you want to be a good manager, you need to accept that your behavior is under a microscope. You need to watch your behavior carefully and pay attention to what that behavior communicates. You’ve made and committed to a timeline, but your estimate was wrong. The timeline’s going to slip. Now what? On the fundamental purpose of middle management: context down, information up. Here’s a weird little skill I had to learn the hard way: how to give a status update to executives, investors, or boards. It’s different from most other kinds of status updates: much shorter, much quicker, much less in-depth. Here’s the structure I use when giving an update to this type of audience.