The best management advice I ever got is to try and figure out what good management looks like and then put on a performance - try and act like a good manager, go through all of the required motions
Because it turns out imitating a good manager and actually being a good manager are mostly the same thing
(I think about this sometimes when I encounter debates about whether or not LLMs can reason about or understand content)
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