bijan sabet: Getting promoted too quickly

Found this blog while looking at users who share the same tumblr theme as me, followed immediately…. I once found myself as the employee getting promoted too quickly without being prepared to lead. While I was certainly running circles around the tasks that were given to me, I wasn’t ready to lead a team as a manager. I ended up ostracizing some of my team members and ultimately asked to be moved from the leadership role. I learned a lot…especially that being a skilled independent means nothing when it comes to leading a team. I still find myself micromanaging all the time. Our team calls me out on it constantly. Keeps me in check. Anyway, great note here. Be sure to click through.

bijan:

“He’s a star. Thank god he’s on the team”.

“He’s not scaling, it’s time to find a replacement”.

I’ve heard that line from too many CEOs about someone on their management team.

In a hyper growth company, those two sentences can be just a year or two apart.

So what’s happening here.

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Source: bijan

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    Found this blog while looking at users who share the same tumblr theme as me, followed immediately…. I once found myself...
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    Wise words here from Bijan Sabet; why being an early hire on a growth company staff shouldn’t necessarily translate to a...
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    Mark has been writing killer posts lately. He summed up perfectly what I wanted...though...
  19. buzz said: So true—I’ve seen this a couple of times myself.
  20. jenna said: this is spot on.
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    term “scaling”...applied to people. Companies scale, technologies scale, but that does not...
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    my firm. Very good points made here.
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