Special: The Awesome Manager in Programmatic Trading with Will Harrington

Summary

The second on this three-part special series with our guest Will Harrington from MiQ. This time we dig deeper into that ‘circle-of-suck’ that often follows when a Superstar Performer gets promoted and is now on the journey to being an Awesome Manager. In the world of programmatic trading, this is a tough transition where you have have to rewire new habits of success. Learn how Will navigated this, and how he coaches people in his team.

In This Episode

Will takes us through the obstacles and what it feels like to navigate that circle-of-suck, when the Superstar Performer programmatic trader is promoted to ‘Awesome Manager’. On the one hand it feels great to be promoted, but now success looks like more than being good!

1. How the patterns of success shift once you become a manager of people?

2. What he perceived as doing a great job at the Awesome Manager stage?

3. How did the company’s perception of his performance expectations shift?

4. Big lessons learned that would help those stuck in the Awesome Manager circle-of-suck!

See you next week and in the meantime, Be Fabulous!