If You Had Known Back Then What You Know Now?

If You Had Known Back Then What You Know Now?: "'What do you know today that you wish you'd known when you first became a manager?' I'm a brand new people manager and I asked this question of a few experienced ones. What I got was a good sampling of manager wisdom:

- Trust your gut.
- When you find good people hire them. You can figure out later which job they'll go into.
- Give people time.
- Change the definition of 'success' and thus the satisfaction that you get from being successful. From 'success' = 'doing good engineering' to 'success' = 'I coach my people well, therefore my group is doing good engineering'.
- Be very aggressive about dealing with personnel problems.
- Hire for potential rather than current ability/experience. Potential must include willingness to learn, evolve and even paradigm shift.
- Actively invest in your team and build relationships as if they would be for a lifetime.
- Never promise something you don't know you can deliver.
- Never tell a lie.
- Don't change your style to suit "