35 Impactful Questions Managers Should Ask Themselves Regularly

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We asked top startup leaders to share the questions they ask themselves to become better managers and assembled their answers into a can't-miss checklist. Ask any manager about how they spent their day, and they’ll probably immediately dig into the weeds — rattling off a long list of 1:1 meetings, putting out fires, responding to Slack messages or writing up strategy docs to send up the ladder to the higher-ups. At a fast-paced startup, with more tasks than people to accomplish them, managers are often still filling in individual contributor-sized gaps while simultaneously stretching into director-shaped roles. But what we’ve found is that the most high-impact managers make a regular habit of setting aside moments of reflection, putting in the deliberate time and work it takes to gain a new perspective on their teams, their cross-functional relationships and their own effectiveness from a higher altitude. It got us thinking — there’s certainly plenty of content on the questions manager

Ask any manager about how they spent their day, and they’ll probably immediately dig into the weeds — rattling off a long list of 1:1 meetings, putting out fires, responding to Slack messages or writing up strategy docs to send up the ladder to the higher-ups. At a fast-paced startup, with more tasks than people to accomplish them, managers are often still filling in individual contributor-sized gaps while simultaneously stretching into director-shaped roles. But what we’ve found is that the most high-impact managers make a regular habit of setting aside moments of reflection, putting in the d

35 Impactful Questions Managers Should Ask Themselves Regularly

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