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Why Great ICs Become Struggling First-Time Managers

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For a long time, the only way to keep growing your career was to manage people, so plenty of great individual contributors took a job they never wanted and got almost no help doing it. Rising Team founder and CEO Jennifer Dulski thinks companies can now fix both problems, and end up with fewer managers who chose the role.

She also talks about why cohort-based manager training only lands for about a third of the room, and how “super managers” are leading 10 or 20 direct reports with AI handling the administrative work.

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