Listen: Five principles for successfully managing managers
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Saumil Mehta shares his hard-earned framework for becoming a high-impact “manager of managers” — and why skip level leaders, not more middle managers, are the key to scaling product teams.
In this episode, you’ll learn
* When a manager struggles, look one level up
* Why the jump from line manager to skip lead is so tough
* The “API endpoint” trick for leading through layers
* How to get feedback without undermining your managers
* Why covering for a weak manager can backfire
* How to match people to the right projects
* A simple 2×2 for knowing when to step in or step back
* First-week habits that set skip leads up for success
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