Management For Startups Podcast

Prioritisation will make the biggest difference to your ability to remain sane as a manager. The most important side effect of learning prioritisation is to gain the ability to say no to certain management tasks — while being fully aware of the consequences on your team. We talk about how to do this in this episode.

The Manager's Job is a lens through which one may understand all of management. In this episode, we discuss the downstream implications of this framework, and how it helps when thinking about the other management techniques we've talked about so far. This episode is part of the mini series 'The Bare Minimum You Need To Be An Adequate Manager'.

In the last episode, we talked about how training and delegation are two halves of the same process. In this episode, we explore how to do training in service of better delegation — the basics all the way to how to systematise your training program so you're not spending all your time training people.

We know delegation can be done badly — the English language has a word to describe bad delegation: micro-management. Why is it that new managers sometimes micro-manage, even when they know it's a bad idea? We explore why, and then discuss five techniques to delegate well.

Management for Startups is a podcast dedicated to the new manager on the startup treadmill. In this episode, we discuss the goal of the podcast, and talk about the focus for the next six to eight episodes: 'the bare minimum you need to know to be an adequate manager'. (Hint: it's only four techniques!)