As startups scale, effective management becomes the difference between chaotic growth and sustainable success. After analyzing hundreds of posts on startup management, I’ve distilled the key pieces of advice that founders and leaders should keep in mind.
1. Management Philosophy
- Management is a design pattern: Just like engineering has patterns, management has best practices that can be learned and applied systematically.
- Use Situational Judgement: tailor support for employees ranging from micromanagement for new hires to hands-off for high performers.
- Lead authentically: The best managers don’t rely on mimicry but develop their own authentic style based on their values and strengths.
Management, like engineering, has repeatable design patterns that can be learned and applied
2. Organizational Structure
- Understand breaking points: Management structures naturally reach breaking points at around 8, 60, and several hundred employees – prepare for these…
