Are you a barely-managing manager? This is how to cope

As a busy executive at Trello, staying on top of work was like a never-ending game of whack-a-mole. My calendar was stacked with back-to-back meetings, and I struggled to stay present in them as my Slack flooded with requests for feedback, approvals, and more. Each morning, I wrote down my goals for the day, and […]

As a busy executive at Trello, staying on top of work was like a never-ending game of whack-a-mole. My calendar was stacked with back-to-back meetings, and I struggled to stay present in them as my Slack flooded with requests for feedback, approvals, and more. Each morning, I wrote down my goals for the day, and like clockwork, these were abandoned by noon in favor of yet another fire to put out.