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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You need to learn how to manage your managers. Sounds like you are doing good job managing down.[/quote]

This. First line managing is HARD because you're being squished from both directions. You're doing great with your people, though. Being kind and understanding and valuing work accomplished and not hours of a green dot in Teams is being a good manager. But it sucks taking the bullets from above for the team. I agree that your next professional step is learning to manage up.

But one silver lining is that there is a cultural shift in the way people manage now. Slow as it might be to start, I think (hope) that in the future, more upper management will be like OP.[/quote]

Op here. I don’t see what I’m doing as being kind and understanding, I just do not give a shit. We hire well trained and well educated mid-career professionals. I don’t care about how ‘the juice is squeezed’. Squeeze that mfr and if you need resources lmk and we can make it better.[/quote]

Actually, I think that's what makes a manager be able to successfully manage.  I took a step back b/c a gave a shit too much about everything that was upsetting my employees and it eventually impacted my on health.[/quote]

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