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What Julie Zhuo thinks about management

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Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product design at Facebook; author of The Making of a Manager; writes The Looking Glass.

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  1. Our readingIn the best working relationships the manager is a guide, not a judge deciding whether you deserve a promotion or a firing.

    Their wordswe often also have this mental model of like oh our managers are a judge and they're going to judge me on whether or not I got it I did well I should get a promotion I should be fired so there's this sometimes fear that people have but I think in the very best relationships the manager is like a guide

    ↗From managing people to managing AI: The leadership skills everyone needs now | Julie Zhuoyoutube.com 18th of 22 in this recording

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  3. Our readingAI favours tiny teams of high-agency individual contributors with blurred roles, and the coordinating manager is not needed until it is time to polish.

    Their wordsWelcome to the era of AI-native companies, where individual contributors (ICs) reign supreme.

    ↗The Death of Product Development as We Know itlg.substack.com

    Interesting