If I could offer one piece of advice to leaders/managers everywhere, it would be this:

If you take the day off, don't drop into the team chat. Don't drop into the team standup. Don't show up to any meetings. Don't send emails.

It sets a terrible example. It tells your team that even when they're off they should be "on". It's disrespectful. It's NOT being a leader.

Disconnect. Trust that the team will be fine without you. Come back refreshed and THEN do those things.

#leadership

Thought Leaders: "Programming will be obsolete within 5 years. All business software will be generated by AIs"

Actual Businesses: "actually we're mainly still on-premise, running on Windows Server 2003 and VBScript ASP, but our two-year plan to migrate everything into a cloud kicked off in 2015 and we're making steady progress."

Here's today's newsletter, all about the five dysfunctions of product management teams, whether product/market fit is dead, and asking ourselves if "scope creep" is really a thing in agile development.

https://oneknightinproduct.substack.com/p/the-five-dysfunctions-of-product?sd=pf

#productmanagement #agile