As a manager, if you are the smartest person in your team, you are not a good manager.
Your job is not to impress your team and your superiors with your own brilliance.
Your first and foremost job is to get the best out of your team members - by assembling a team that is smarter than you, defining the right roles for your team members, orchestrating good team chemistry, supporting them when they need help, and making them shine.
As you step up from an individual contributor role to a management role, learn to under play your own smartness.
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