Levelling up: Transitioning successfully into a manager of managers role
summary
A practical playbook for the manager-of-managers transition: concrete timeline (promotion from managing one team to five within 12 months and promotion to director), a real incident where pausing a large migration averts a major outage, templates for handoffs and org information flows, and explicit shifts to handle: perception, patience, presence — scanning Slack and docs, longer time horizons, building cross‑org bridges and tolerating imperfect compromises.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:21My journey
- 9:05Perception
- 16:50Presence
- 20:27Recap
- 21:10Growth and comfort
- 21:49Resources
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