the subordinate is IN
This podcast is about all things work-related; we offer advice and/or perspective on jobs, work and management. Depending on the episode, my co-host and I may choose a particular topic or theme, and then focus on it in some detail. But for others—what we refer to as our "Jam sessions"—things are a bit more candid and free-flowing. As for who the two of us are? Well, let’s just say that’s not nearly as important as what we are NOT. We’re not managers, we're not CEOs (nor have we ever been ), and neither of us has our MBA - and that very much informs the perspective of the show. We like to think we offer insights from the so-called "bottom" of the organizational pyramid, as opposed to the top - although once you dive into this first season, you’ll learn we both have a problem calling it that...
the subordinate is IN
Ep12: The Advisor-Evaluator Paradox
Subtitled “Sympathy for the manager,” in this episode my co-host and I discuss the absolute impossibility of being both an advisor to, and evaluator of, your employees. And yet all managers are tasked with, and expected to execute on these inherently paradoxical responsibilities...