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"Shitshows That Need Supervision" hits different

Most leadership content explains principles. This guide does something else. It puts a name on the chaos you're already living through.

Every chapter walks through a scenario that's instantly recognisable to anyone who has managed engineers: not a hypothetical, but the meeting, the missed handoff, or the "quick fix" that wasn't, that you've watched play out in real time. That recognition is the hook. People don't laugh because it's exaggerated, they laugh because it's accurate, and because nobody else is willing to say it that plainly.

It works as a credibility signal as much as a laugh. Generic leadership content tends to stay abstract because the author has never actually run the meeting that went sideways. This guide doesn't — every situation is grounded in operational reality, which is exactly why it lands before a single "framework" is mentioned.

And critically, it doesn't just diagnose, it shows what changes when a leader actually steps in. The humor gets you to read it. The structure underneath it is what gets you to think differently about your own meetings.

What's Inside

Twelve scenarios, each one a recognisable leadership disaster. the kind every manager has either caused or cleaned up after. Each scenario follows the same arc: what's actually happening, what gets said about it at the time, where it goes if nobody intervenes, and what changes when someone with the right instincts steps in. Closing out the guide is a short self-assessment so you can score how many of these are currently running unsupervised on your own team.

It's built to be read in one sitting and acted on the next day — no theory, no fluff, just twelve mirrors you'll probably recognise yourself in at least once.

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