Establishing consistent routines for calm mornings and bedtimes can play a significant role in raising happy kids. How children start and end their day can significantly impact their physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Parents can create a peaceful and enjoyable home environment by creating consistent morning and bedtime routines. Some tips for creating bedtime routines include: keeping it consistent

In this blog post, I draw from the book “How to Win Friends and Influence People” by Dale Carnegie to highlight three critical relationship-building skills that can be applied in daily life to improve communication and leadership. The first lesson is to be genuinely interested in other people. When people feel valued and appreciated, they are more likely to feel motivated and engaged, thus improving productivity and success.

Building a safe, collaborative, thoughtful, stimulating, productive, innovative, and effective team requires a safe, collaborative, thoughtful, stimulating, productive, innovative, and effective culture. The Google Aristotle project revealed this insight: “For a team to be effective, members need to work really well together.” For that to occur, you need a safe team culture for team members to be able to be themselves and feel safe. Safe enough to voice their opinions. Safe to disagree with you and each other, and bring up half-baked ideas and questions without being mocked or silenced.

“Empower don’t micromanage, but also be productive and result oriented. Deliver on time, and under budget, while building happy and fulfilled teams. Grow your career but also grow your team members’ careers.” — Seems like a bunch of oxymorons. But these are some of the responsibilities of a manager. As you can see, there are managerial tasks intertwined with leadership concepts. Abstract leadership concepts are hard to follow for new managers or any manager. So how do we adopt the idea of Management Through Leadership, and start combining management and leadership to influence a great outcome without controlling every aspect of the journey?

This blog is my attempt to introduce the concept of Management Through Leadership, share my personal experience as an Engineering Manager and people leader, and Emphasize the extremely important role managers play in helping employees have successful and fulfilling careers, helping companies deliver successful products, and finally redefining and reevaluating the 9-to-5 line of work. If you are a manager, I hope you understand the importance of your role.