{"id":5535,"date":"2013-02-05T07:34:45","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T14:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=5535"},"modified":"2013-02-05T07:34:45","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T14:34:45","slug":"a-managers-manifesto-the-year-of-the-looking-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=5535","title":{"rendered":"A Manager&#8217;s Manifesto \u2014 The Year of the Looking Glass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I liked this collection of <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/the-year-of-the-looking-glass\/be5f6b118084\">thoughts and lessons<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@joulee\">Julie Zhuo<\/a>, a design director at Facebook, including:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Sweep up the crumbs. Wipe the tables. Turn off the lights. Plug the holes that need plugging\u2014even if it&#8217;s menial, even if nobody will know you did it. Do it in service of the product, the company, and this wondrous, magical thing you are all building together.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It reminded me of <a href=\"http:\/\/adii.me\/removing-obstacles\">this story from Adii Pienaar<\/a>, founder at WooThemes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As CEO, I don\u2019t necessarily think that washing dishes is part of my \u201cjob description\u201d and it doesn\u2019t carry any obvious priority in terms of things I need to get done today &#8230; sometimes the best thing I can do in my business is the smallest, simplest thing; <strong>especially if that means I can remove obstacles for my team.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><small>(these were published at <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\">medium<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/svbtle.com\">svbtle<\/a>, respectively)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I liked this collection of thoughts and lessons from Julie Zhuo, a design director at Facebook, including: Sweep up the crumbs. Wipe the tables. Turn off the lights. Plug the holes that need plugging\u2014even if it&#8217;s menial, even if nobody will know you did it. Do it in service of the product, the company, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-business","category-personal","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5535"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5538,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5535\/revisions\/5538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}