ranjan

As one grows as a leader, a day will come when organisation has enough structure to have other Managers that report to the leader. Instead of just being responsible for a group of individual contributors, one is responsible for other managers & indirectly responsible for every individual. There are some differences in managing individuals and managing other managers. To layout those differences, following framework of four questions be considered to ask - 1) What do you look for when hiring? 2) How to do you assign tasks? 3) What updates do you expect? 4) How do you measure success? The answer to each question explains the difference between managing individuals vs. other managers. These are explained as under - 1) When you hire, you look for technical expertise and ability to learn. 2) When you assign tasks, you define details of what needs to get done. 3) When you get updates, you expect status of their own projects and issues. 4) When you measure success, you are focus