How to Assert Authority as a Young Manager

It’s not a choice between candor and kindness

Vinita
Better Programming
Published in
7 min readJul 5, 2022

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person holding a huge ball of fear and anxiety = caption: assertion authority feels like this when you are new person holding a small ball of fear and anxiety = caption: asserting authority feels like this with experience
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Some discomfort is natural if you have recently moved from an individual contributor to a manager position. What further compounds this discomfort is if you have elder people or those who are more experience reporting to you.

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Author: Books on Mindset, Imposter Syndrome. Scaling products → Scaling thinking (⊙_⊙) Former AVP Engineering, Swiggy. I write about work, progress and success.