Why You Should Manage Like a Slacker?
Most managers are so focused on getting the work done, they never stop to ask: are we actually leaving room to do it well?In this episode, I sit down with Reid — engineering manager, deeply well-read, and someone who introduced me to a concept I now can't stop thinking about: organizational slack. Not the chat app. The breathing room that separates a team that can think, create, and adapt from one that's just grinding toward collapse.We get into why micromanagement is usually fear dressed up as accountability, the difference between being a manager and actually leading a team, and what Rasmussen's Drift model tells us about what happens when there's no buffer left in the system. We also talk motivation — why assuming your team is driven by the same things you are is one of the most common and costly mistakes a leader makes.Plus: the case for being delusional, and why being a slacker might be the most underrated leadership skill of our time.
