Dan Martell - February 07, 2026


The problem with managers

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Dan Martell
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Episode Stats


Length

26 seconds

Words per minute

197.46

Word count

88

Sentence count

9

Harmful content

Toxicity

8

sentences flagged


Summary

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Great managers are strategic, understand reporting, understand people, understand systems, and their whole job in life is to unblock their team and to actually work for their team. Most managers are the most hated role in every company because most managers suck.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 I f***ing hate managers. 0.99
00:00:01.200 They're like trying to confuse you. 0.99
00:00:02.840 They don't make your life better and they don't add value. 0.95
00:00:05.260 They don't do s***. 0.84
00:00:06.160 You can literally fire them all and the company will do better. 0.99
00:00:09.080 That's kind of f***ed up.
00:00:10.240 The truth is great managers are strategic, understand reporting, understand people, understand systems. 0.75
00:00:16.900 And their whole job in life is to unblock their team and to actually work for their team. 0.99
00:00:22.100 Most managers are the most hated role in every company because most managers suck. 1.00