Weekly antimanager satire · Product · Engineering · Management · People · Startups
Every Tuesday I talk to Manolo about product, engineering, management, people and startups. At 7 A.M.
Management problem
How a manager’s behavior changes trust, talent, and the team’s ability to tell the truth.
Guiding question: What makes a team follow its manager instead of merely putting up with them?
Manolo cuts junior roles, then cannot find seniors. Google opens an apprenticeship application window. Someone has to train the people everyone wants to hire.
exigir experiencia sin financiar aprendizaje debilita el relevo del equipo.
Manolo hires a Swedish star for a Spanish market he has never seen. A Formula 1 engine in a delivery truck doesn't make it faster: it breaks it.
una estrella pierde eficacia cuando se ignora el contexto que sostenía su rendimiento.
Ferran scores the World Cup winner and gives it to 47 million people. Manolo claims his team's goals as his own. That's the whole difference.
apropiarse del éxito del equipo destruye compromiso.
Manolo repeats the same lectures every week and nothing changes. A memoryless AI agent teaches him the lesson: processes teach, sermons don't.
repetir una orden sin cambiar el sistema no cambia el resultado.
The intern Manolo trashed twelve years ago is back as the private equity executive deciding his future. The elevator always comes back down the same shaft.
el mal trato genera una deuda relacional que regresa.
Topuria's corner dared to stop the fight. Who has the courage to stop Manolo when he can't see? Entourage or corner: that's the difference.
un líder necesita personas con autoridad para detenerlo.
Manolo hires a 300,000-a-year hotshot and won't let him decide anything. On collecting talent like trading cards that never get to play.
contratar criterio para ignorarlo desperdicia el talento.
The people Manolo fired for underperforming are thriving on LinkedIn. Theory X, self-fulfilling prophecies, and the one constant: the boss.
despedir talento no borra el valor que la empresa no supo aprovechar.
Manolo gives his team ownership, then rewrites their proposal over the weekend. A satire of the boss who won't let go of the wheel, even parked.
la confianza sin contraste convierte experiencia en riesgo.
Manolo mistakes motion for progress: 340 meetings, 47-slide decks and zero decisions. A satire of the boss who works too much and changes nothing.
el sobretrabajo del jefe puede imponer un sistema insostenible.
Manolo wants KPIs to measure his engineers and Jose explains Goodhart: once the metric becomes the target, talent works for the spreadsheet.
supervisar cada decisión elimina responsabilidad y aprendizaje.
Manolo demands total devotion from a CTO on LinkedIn while offering nothing back. Recruiting is not romance: it is clarity, power and reciprocity.
tratar cada relación como transacción destruye confianza.
Manolo thinks leadership is vision and inspiration. Jose reminds him you can be brilliant and still be an asshole. Character comes first.
el cargo no convierte el control en liderazgo.
Someone wipes the database and nobody is to blame because nobody meant harm. Hanlon's razor as a free pass for polite incompetence.
atribuir malicia antes que error deteriora la confianza.