Manager's Framework - Prioritizing Your Time
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A book I recommend to anyone new to a management role: High Output Management by Andy Grove
Of several great takeaways in this book, a simple framework for prioritizing time spent as a manager is my favorite:
Four patternistic actions:
- Information Gathering
- Nudging
- Decision Making
- Being A Role Model
And the four anti-pattern actions while doing the above:
- Delaying decisions
- Meddling
- Abdication
- Unnecessary interruption.
This is a great post that gets into more detail on the positive four, and includes an example day-in-the-life. The TLDR? Do more activities that map to the patternistic actions, avoid activities that map to the anti-patterns.