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Fifty Two Weeks Is Enough Time to Get Good at This.
You got promoted into managing people, and a year is plenty of time to get good at it. What nobody hands you is the order to learn it in. 52 Weeks is that order, written as twelve letters, one a month. Each one takes something that is probably happening to you right now, explains why it happens, and gives you one thing to do about it this week.
Start with the next one.
Your first letter arrives at the start of next month.
The rhythm
One letter a month, because a month is what one of everything takes.
Your work already runs on this cycle. The letters follow it, so what lands is something you can use before the next one arrives.
- One review cycle
- One full run of 1-on-1s
- One set of goals that either held or did not
Anything faster would just be more inbox. Nobody applies one management idea a week.
The shape of it
Every letter does the same four things.
The subjects change with the year. The format does not, so you always know what you are opening, and it is never a link roundup or a news digest.
One thing that is probably happening to you right now
Not a topic. A situation you would recognize from your own week.
Why it happens
The mechanism underneath it, which is almost never the one people name out loud.
One thing to do this week
Small enough that you will actually do it before the next letter arrives.
Where to go deeper, if you want to
Into the guides on this site, which are free and stay free.
Before you hand over an email
This is not for everyone, and that is deliberate.
Worth your inbox if
- You are in your first year or two of managing people.
- You got the job because you were good at the old one.
- Nobody at your company is going to train you, and you have stopped waiting.
- You would rather read one honest thing a month than five newsletters you skim.
Skip it if
- You want daily tips, hacks or a productivity system.
- You manage managers already. This is aimed a level below you.
- You are after frameworks to quote rather than things to do on Monday.
- You want a course. This is twelve letters, not a curriculum you sign up for.
I built this site because I was handed a team with no training, and spent a year working out things somebody could have told me in an afternoon.
The letters are the version I wish had turned up in my inbox that year. Written by someone who got it wrong first, which is the only qualification that seems to matter here.
One a month. If a month has nothing worth saying, you will not get filler to fill the slot. You will get it late instead.
A letter at the start of every month.
Twelve of them, covering the full fifty two weeks. And the guides on this site stay free and ungated either way: the letters add timing and a voice, never access.
Get the letters.
Free. One email a month. Nothing else.