As a Manager You Need to Play the Cards and Play the Man

There’s a famous saying in poker that you don’t play the cards, you play the man. For those who aren’t poker players, the idea is simple. If you have a good hand and start raising significantly, while for bad hands you fold or raise little, everyone will know what’s in your hand and they will fold or stay in as appropriate for them. But in poker bluffing is part of the game. You very much can, and should, if possible, convince your opponent to fold even though you’re holding a bad hand. Likewise, when you have a good hand, you don’t let them know that and keep them on the hook as you keep raising the stakes until you win the hand with a bigger pot. Bluffing has little to do with the cards and a lot to do with how you interact with the other people at the table. As an individual contributor, people tend to play the cards. Your job is to create a report, run a campaign, or execute some task. Most of the time you should look to do it as efficiently as possible, where efficiently can mean quickly, cheaply, and/or optimizing to some other metric(s). <a href="https://medium.com/@markaherschberg/as-a-manager-you-need-to-play-the-cards-and-play-the-man-d626a0af283e">Learn More</a>