New managers need to unlearn the habits that got them promoted. Doing everything yourself worked as an individual contributor, but it kills you as a manager. You have to stop doing the work while learning to lead.
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As every step in the management ladder, you have to unlearn things. And very often, people forget about that. And you have to learn new things. And there's a lot of focus on the latter, but the former is extremely important. It's as important to try to unlearn things because they're going to be— what made you successful in the past is going to stand in the way of your success moving forward, believe it or not. Yeah. And you have to unlearn them and then learn the new skills at the same time. So, what is it that you need to unlearn? Well, you need to unlearn to do things yourself. It sounds easy. It's not because you know how to do it. That's actually the reason essentially that you've been promoted initially. So, you know how to do things.