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The Silent Cost of Promoting Your Best Peer
When you promote your best colleague, you don't just change their title. You fundamentally alter the power dynamic between you two, often creating a silent resentment that kills productivity before anyone speaks up. This episode explores why the 'best peer' is frequently the worst first promotion candidate for a new manager, using the specific example of a software team lead who lost her top engineer not through firing, but through awkwardness and misaligned expectations. We break down the three signals that indicate this transition is failing and how to fix it before the…
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