Nicholas MirickFebruary 26, 2026good manager, AI, people management, promptingComment

Spotify’s Billboard Moment

If you’re clinging to the old ways just because they’re familiar, maybe it’s time to ask yourself why. After all, we’re adults. And as Spotify so aptly points out, we deserve to be treated like it.

Management, Remote ManagementNicholas MirickJanuary 16, 2025 Comment

No Eye-Contact Wednesdays

No Eye-Contact Wednesdays
Camera-off days won’t save remote work. Building trust isn’t about hiding—it’s about connecting. The problem isn’t remote work—it’s our bad habits. Let’s fix meetings, foster connection, and make remote work actually work.

Nicholas MirickDecember 10, 2024remote management, remote work, good remote manager, Management, empathy, EQ, better

The Myth of the T-Shaped Professional

T-shaped professionals are great in theory, but reality favors specialists. The one T-shaped skill we all need? People management. Train managers to lead with empathy, bridge silos, and unlock true innovation.

Nicholas MirickDecember 3, 2024Management, Reactive, Performative verisimilitude, teachingComment

When A Manager is Uninterested in People Management

How do you deal with a people manager who’s uninterested in managing people? Let’s breakdown the motivations for people management to get at the why.

Management, Remote ManagementNicholas MirickAugust 31, 2023Management, good manager, bad managerComment

First, Be a Person

Let’s talk about professional Empathy

ManagementNicholas MirickAugust 10, 2023Management, Millennial, good manager, bad manager, empathy, EQComment

Critical Feedback Part 3: At the Right Time

For feedback to be effective it must be timely.

Providing feedback that someone will internalize is equal parts why, how and when. The When of providing feedback is important because the person receiving the feedback needs to be in a place where they directly associate behavior with consequence and outcome.

ManagementNicholas MirickMarch 3, 2020good manager, feedback, ManagementComment

Critical Feedback Part 2: For the Right Reasons

WHY you’re giving someone critical feedback is as important as the contents of the feedback. The right message can be amplified or undermined by the motivations of the person giving it — so let’s amplify it.

Nicholas MirickFebruary 13, 2020Comment

I Manage You, You're Pretty Good, Now Change

Every people manager, at some point, has asked another, more experienced, people manager, When do I get to stop dealing with immature people? Don’t they know this isn’t high school?? And the more experienced people manager laughs and says, I’ll let you know when it happens.

ManagementNicholas MirickFebruary 4, 2020feedback, Management, good manager Comments

How to Have Better One On One's (Part 2)

So now you’re having One on One’s regularly— how do you have a good One on One? How do you have a better One on One?