The Biggest Recording Mistake in a Management Position

The podcast is about people's career journey, and in particular, people who find themselves in a management position. We can definitely see a pattern across industries and companies, which is a tendency to promote individual contributors into middle management positions. The biggest mistake we observe in this kind of dynamic is the tendency to promote these individual contributors because of their subject matter expertise. So they might as well lead the team, which unfortunately often is a recipe for disaster.