Managing Made Simple

Lia Garvin

Managing Made Simple is a weekly leadership and management podcast for people managers, business owners, and founders who want to lead high-performing teams without falling back into the work themselves. Each week, host Lia Garvin- 3x bestselling author and former team operations leader at Google, Apple, and Microsoft- breaks down the real, everyday challenges of leading teams, giving feedback, delegating, creating team accountability, high performing culture, retention, and more with performance with practical strategies you can implement immediately. Lia’s work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, The Wall Street Journal, and Fortune. With Lia, you get re...

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Managing Made Simple

Episodes (100)

Tue Oct 20th Second in command not stepping up? Wrong fit or wrong expectations
Tue Oct 13th 3 things great leaders do, no matter the team size or industry
Tue Oct 6th How to give a performance review your team won't dread

Managing Made Simple

Oct 20, 2026
16¼ minutes
22 MB

When your second in command isn't stepping up, it's tempting to decide you hired the wrong person. But most new number twos think the job is to do everything themselves, so they say yes to all of it, get spread too thin, and lose track of what matters most. In this episode, Lia shares how to tell if it's the wrong fit or the wrong expectations, and how to reset the expectation so your successor can start running things the way you hired them to. In this episode you will learn: How to tell whether you...

Managing Made Simple

Second in command not stepping up? Wrong fit or wrong expectations

Lia Garvin

00:00 -16:12