In this episode we cover:

• Why technical excellence is a poor predictor of management success

• The four failure modes of accidental managers

• Why organizations are structurally complicit in this problem

• A practical framework for making the transition deliberately

Referenced: CEB/Gartner research on IC-to-manager transitions | High Output Management — Andrew Grove

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