Four mistakes I made as a new manager

As a young software engineer, I assumed managers spent every minute of their days running meetings, tracking projects, and talking to people (in other words, sending a lot of emails). I was wrong.

These presumptions limited my impact as a new manager and I had to unlearn them the hard way. I cringe when I remember some of my missteps and I wish I’d had an instruction manual for navigating this tricky transition. But unfortunately, there’s no such thing.

Here I’m recapping some of my newbie mistakes and highlighting the common pitfalls in the hope that other new or soon-to-be managers find it useful.

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