Mita Mallick

If you can't say I'm sorry for the way I behaved, I'm sorry.

Full stop is an apology.

No, but if, and when I'm sorry for how you behaved, Ryan.

No.

Right.

And so that, that's what I want people to just take the accountability and help repair your part of the relationship.

Yeah, listen, if you're listening to this episode and you worked for me years ago, I'm sorry, I was micromanaging Nita.

And I also hate to be micromanaged.

So how interesting is that?

And there's nothing like micromanagement to squeeze the joy out of work for me.

And what I've studied is, you think about the workplace, Ryan, and you think about the history of workplaces.

And I was always chasing the corporate America dream.

I wanted a glass corner office with the city view, bathroom, fridge, hopefully a mini bar, a couch.

And I get to look out and see all the people reporting into me, right?

Like this empire building.

And a lot of individuals...

are not interested in leading.

But they're forced to lead, because that's how much of our workplaces were built, that if you're going to get promoted, you're getting a title, money, and all that stuff, but you're going to have to actually oversee more people.

And so this idea that you go from individual contributor to a boss leader, you are not doing their jobs for them.

You're coaching them.