When going from individual contributor to manager, you have to shift your perspective. Manager of managers now takes that one level further and it removes your direct visibility onto the day to day of everyone on the team. And then I think when you shift from senior manager to director, there's an explicit change there where you need to start thinking more explicitly about how your team fits in with the broader organization.
https://fellow.app/supermanagers/tamar-bercovici-box-go-beyond-fixing-it-how-the-vp-of-engineering-approaches-high-stake-change/
Whenever something is unclear, there is always an element of risk.
Leaders can de-risk situations by getting extremely clear on the goal and purpose of the project.
In episode #136, Tamar shares her approach to mission-critical projects and how to approach high stake changes.
Tamar Bercovici is the VP of Engineering at Box, where she scaled the cloud content management and file-sharing service to handle millions of queries per second searching hundreds of billions of records.
Tamar shares her story of rising through the ranks at Box and her experience throughout different levels of leadership.
Tune in to hear all about Tamar’s career journey and the lessons learned along the way!
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