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Job of a Manager
Category: Business
Duration: 00:40:36
Publish Date: 2026-03-02 01:07:05
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Dima and Slava build a conceptual triangle to look at a manager’s role and generally do their best to highlight different facets of the job managers are expected to do.

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  • Definitions
    • PMI: “Management is the process of leading a team to achieve goals within given constraints.”
    • Harvard Business School: “Managers are responsible for setting strategy, executing plans, allocating resources, and leading people to achieve organizational objectives.”
    • Slava’s: “A manager does stuff to achieve things.”
  • Team – Manager – Company triangle
  • Manager as the team–company interface
  • Team is the smallest unit that can carry the culture
  • Manager’s work at different levels of company structure
    1. Line manager: team of individual contributors
    2. Middle manager: team of managers
    3. Executive manager: team of managers of managers
  • Coaching style management, again
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