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How New Managers Can Break the Cycle of Heroic Problem-Solving
In Episode 54 of New Manager Conversations, Lucas and Luna dive into one of the most common traps new managers fall into: the urge to personally solve every team problem, especially during their first 90 days. Lucas opens with a specific example from a tech company where a first-time engineering manager spent 30 hours debugging a production issue that three senior engineers could have fixed in half the time — and how that eroded trust with his team. They discuss why 'heroic problem-solving' is often a coping mechanism for impostor syndrome, and share a three-step framework for…
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