
What Do Managers of Managers Do? (The Crank Call From Kim) 4 | 16
Radical Candor: Communication at Work
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Is There a Side Effect of Control?
I think there's a sort of belief that if I, the manager of managers know about the problem, then it will be solved correctly. That brings us very neatly to the second big contradiction, which is that you are accountable, even though you do not have control. You got to let go of control because the more you try to correct everything that could go wrong with some kind of bureaucracy, then you're really duck. And so what's happening is like only the absolutely most critical problems like that are literally stopping things like work from happening are ever going to get solved. All of these other problems that are slowing everybody down and making people miserable, they don't actually rise to that level as
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