Shift From Maker To Manager

The hardest transition to make when you step into a leadership role is the one from maker to manager. When you are early in your career, you are primarily evaluated on your ability to do the work - to control it, shape it, and make it great. However, once you transition into leadership your job is no longer to do the work, it's to LEAD the work. This is a fundamentally different responsibility, and one that many managers get wrong. In this episode of the Herding Tigers podcast, I discuss some tensions that every leader of creative people experiences as they attempt the shift from maker to manager, and how to deal with them. Join the Leader List to get one short leadership essay a week for 52 weeks. Want to dive deeper? Check out the Herding Tigers Creative Leader Course .

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Shift From Maker To Manager is an episode from Herding Tigers by AccidentalCreative.com - Todd Henry.

This episode is 11:10 long.

This episode was published on Apr 20, 2022.

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