I want to share something I learned today from the book “The Making of a Manager” by Julie Zhou, which is how to diagnose the lack of great work from an employee.

Something I learned today from the book “The Making of a Manager” by Julie Zhuo is how to deal with the situation when you are a new manager of a team and need to have a report open up to you.

I recently started reading the best-seller book “The Making Of A Manager” by Julie’s Zhuo and I’m still in the early chapters where the role of an engineering manager is being discussed & defined, and the discussion pretty much indirectly touches on a classic question: “should engineering managers write code?”

There are plenty of definitions out there regarding the role of the software engineering manager, but the most accurate one I found is in Julie Zhuo’s book “The Making of a Manager”:

Your job, as a manager, is to get better outcomes from a group of people working together.