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How to Manage an Underperforming Employee

Published on: 11/03/2026

Six steps, in order, with the actual words. Including the four checks that show roughly half of what gets labelled underperformance is something else

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How to Manage an Underperforming Employee

How to Manage Former Peers After a Promotion

Published on: 10/27/2026

What actually changed is information asymmetry, not the friendship. The two overcorrections, the conversation to have once, and what to say first.

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How to Manage Former Peers After a Promotion

How to Manage a Team as a New Manager: Your First 30 Days

Published on: 10/20/2026

Four weeks, one job per week. What to do in your first thirty days as a manager, and why changing something in week one costs you six months.

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How to Manage a Team as a New Manager: Your First 30 Days

First-Time Manager Tips: 7 Things Nobody Tells You at Work

Published on: 10/13/2026

Seven things nobody tells you when you are promoted into management, and the one test of whether you are making the shift from doing to leading.

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First-Time Manager Tips: 7 Things Nobody Tells You at Work

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