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Your Career Isn’t Your Manager’s Career 

Early in my career, managers were something close to mythical. 

They were the smartest people in the room. The ones who had figured it out. When you had a problem you couldn’t solve, you brought it to them. They weren’t just technically sharp — they were role models. The better ones didn’t just tell me the answer, they asked me my opinion and worked the problem with me.