I asked 350+ managers to share their biggest mistakes.

These 7 mistakes came up over and over.

Here's how you can avoid them:

1/ They Can't Get It All Done

High-performing teams get rewarded with more:

More projects, more customers, more problems.

Tip: Do less work better.

Regularly ask, What work can I:

-> Eliminate?
-> Automate?
-> Streamline?
-> Delegate?

Great leaders are ruthless optimizers.
2/ They Do Too Much Work Themselves

Don't let anyone fool you: Managing well is work.

You can't thrive as a manager until you find joy in succeeding through others.

Tip: Change what you VALUE:

They do the work. They get the credit.

You can be known for letting stars shine.
3/ They Gave Ineffective Feedback

People change of their own accord. Yet you keep telling them how to be better.

Tip: Use open-ended questions.

-> Casual: How do you think it's going?
-> Diagnostic: What are you optimizing for?

Help them find your insight on their own.
4/ They Missed Big Problems Early

As a manager, your number 1 job is to size up problems others miss.

Your boss is too distant. Your employees are inexperienced.

Tip: Catch 98% of the problems w/ 3 filters:

- Key business metrics
- Customer surveys
- Talking to your people
5/ They Didn't Have a System

Management hits you all at once.

-> The TYPE of work elevates.
-> The BREADTH of work grows wider.
-> The VALUE shifts from you to them.

Your to-do list isn't going to cut it.

Tip: Steal my codified management playbook
https://t.co/xN5LARjpDn
6/ They Excluded Their Team in Decisions

Wonder why people love coaches and resent managers?

Coaches help their players achieve their goals.

Your team will not own what they didn't create.

Tip: Co-author the plan

-> Give them the pen
-> You edit & promote

Value >> Credit
7/ They tolerated bad employees

Some managers are too quick to write off underperforming employees.

The same managers are usually too slow in dealing with a toxic one.

Strong performance is seductive.

Tip: Culture >> Outcomes

Remove the cancer, and your team will rally.
Good leaders learn from their mistakes.

Great leaders learn from the mistakes of others.

Avoid these 7 mistakes to get ahead of 90% of your peers.

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How can we use language supervision to learn better visual representations for robotics?

Introducing Voltron: Language-Driven Representation Learning for Robotics!

Paper: https://t.co/gIsRPtSjKz
Models: https://t.co/NOB3cpATYG
Evaluation: https://t.co/aOzQu95J8z

🧵👇(1 / 12)


Videos of humans performing everyday tasks (Something-Something-v2, Ego4D) offer a rich and diverse resource for learning representations for robotic manipulation.

Yet, an underused part of these datasets are the rich, natural language annotations accompanying each video. (2/12)

The Voltron framework offers a simple way to use language supervision to shape representation learning, building off of prior work in representations for robotics like MVP (
https://t.co/Pb0mk9hb4i) and R3M (https://t.co/o2Fkc3fP0e).

The secret is *balance* (3/12)

Starting with a masked autoencoder over frames from these video clips, make a choice:

1) Condition on language and improve our ability to reconstruct the scene.

2) Generate language given the visual representation and improve our ability to describe what's happening. (4/12)

By trading off *conditioning* and *generation* we show that we can learn 1) better representations than prior methods, and 2) explicitly shape the balance of low and high-level features captured.

Why is the ability to shape this balance important? (5/12)

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Following @BAUDEGS I have experienced hateful and propagandist tweets time after time. I have been shocked that an academic community would be so reckless with their publications. So I did some research.
The question is:
Is this an official account for Bahcesehir Uni (Bau)?


Bahcesehir Uni, BAU has an official website
https://t.co/ztzX6uj34V which links to their social media, leading to their Twitter account @Bahcesehir

BAU’s official Twitter account


BAU has many departments, which all have separate accounts. Nowhere among them did I find @BAUDEGS
@BAUOrganization @ApplyBAU @adayBAU @BAUAlumniCenter @bahcesehirfbe @baufens @CyprusBau @bauiisbf @bauglobal @bahcesehirebe @BAUintBatumi @BAUiletisim @BAUSaglik @bauebf @TIPBAU

Nowhere among them was @BAUDEGS to find