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Ramona Shaw hosts The Manager Track, a business show with 317 episodes published.
It usually shows up disguised as one of your strengths. You are the manager who notices the gap before anyone else does and quietly fills it. The deck gets polished, the deadline gets saved, the client never sees the mes
You used to manage six people. Then a reorg, a hiring freeze, or a quiet round of cuts took out the layer above you, and now you are managing twelve. Same hours in the day, but double the team. Maybe a few dotted-line re
You walk in on day one and the team is already a fully formed thing. They have inside jokes you don't get, a process you didn't design, and a read on you that started forming before you said a word. You didn't choose the
In this episode, Ramona sits down with David Dean, a technologist with close to two decades inside complex organizations and the author of a new book, An Inbox Between Us. David calls himself a business AI realist. His c
Most leadership advice tells you what to think. Be more decisive, be more empathetic, give better feedback, and so on. Charlie Munger spent his life paying attention to the layer underneath all of that, which is how to t
Here is something most managers do not realize about themselves. The way you respond when someone gives you feedback is the clearest signal of how much control you are quietly exerting on your team. If you find yourself
You schedule the one-on-ones. You show up. You take notes. You walk out feeling like a good manager, and your direct report walks out without having mentioned the thing they actually came to talk about. Most managers do
You might think your team is using AI well. Everyone has access to the tools. People are experimenting. The meeting notes get cleaned up faster. The emails go out a little quicker. On the surface, progress. But there's a
There is a specific kind of manager who reads everything about delegation, agrees with all of it, and still ends up working late on Tuesday redoing a deck someone else was supposed to own. The intentions are right but th
Most managers know the first 90 days matter. There are books about it, frameworks for it, and a built-in understanding that you are allowed to ask questions and make mistakes early on. What almost nobody talks about is w
Here is a test that comes up in almost every senior leadership conversation. Someone asks a manager, “What are you building?” And the answer goes straight into a to-do list: “We are migrating to a new platform. We are ro
Do you know that moment when you realize that a new hire is not working out? Maybe it is a performance observation you made yourself over the past few weeks, or maybe someone pulls you aside (a senior leader, a peer) and
Most managers adopted the AI tools their company rolled out. They've played around with a few prompts. They think that's enough. Meanwhile, a split is forming. On one side, AI is handling tasks, workflows, research, brie
You’ve been told to work harder, be more patient, and wait your turn. So you did. You kept delivering strong results, volunteered for extra projects, asked for feedback, and acted on it. And nothing moved. The positive p
Most people calculate the risk of giving their boss feedback and decide that silence is safer. The math seems obvious: speak up and you might damage the relationship; stay quiet and nothing changes. So they keep th
You work hard, you care about your team, and you’re good at your job, yet somehow you keep running into the same limits. Feedback repeats, your calendar is packed, and small changes in behavior never seem to stick for lo
Ramona opens this episode with a pattern she has observed across years of coaching leaders at every level: the most technically sharp person in the room often isn't the most influential one. She argues that communication
How much of your week is spent "firefighting"? If you’re like most managers, you start the week with a strategy, but by Tuesday afternoon, a "drop everything" request from senior leadership has derailed your entire team.
You’ve heard it a thousand times. It’s practically gospel in leadership circles: “People don’t leave jobs, they leave managers.” It’s a catchy phrase. It makes for a great headline. But there’s one major problem: T
Most people think moving into leadership is about a title, a pay raise, and reaching that next career step of finally "leading a team." But as anyone who has actually done it knows... it’s usually a rude awakening. To ce
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